| Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul Contributor(s): Lang, Rocky (Author) |
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ISBN: 0692266631 ISBN-13: 9780692266632 Publisher: Hlpi Books OUR PRICE: $12.34 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.44 lbs) 178 pages |
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| Publisher Description: What really goes on behind the veil of celebrity? Rocky Lang, who grew up in the 90210 as the son of mega-producer and screen disaster master Jennings Lang (Earthquake, the Airport movies and 35 other features), dishes all in his new book, Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul. Raised around the likes of Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Walter Matthau and Billy Wilder, Lang serves up-in self-deprecating style-a genuine insider's collection of bizarre, sometimes ribald, often hilarious and always surprising true tales from the rarefied world of Hollywood, such as: * Finding himself a pawn in the brutal creative war between Dustin Hoffman and director Sydney Pollack during the making of the classic comedy Tootsie. * Spying on Olivia Newton-John being photographed nude in his family's backyard pool, and the "breast-beating" he endured after getting caught in the act. * Discovering the scandal-sheet affair between his dad and screen siren Joan Bennett- along with the truth behind his father getting shot in the crotch by Bennett's husband. * Having Steven Spielberg as an "older brother" before and after the famous filmmaker's meteoric rise. *Being told by his dad that writer Gore Vidal offered to buy young Rocky for $1 million. * Learning his mother had slept with Ronald Reagan, plus the outrageous nickname the future U.S. president had given his own sexual prowess. |