{"product_id":"five-easy-decades-how-jack-nicholson-became-the-biggest-movie-star-in-modern-times-9780470422823","title":"Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times","description":"Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"A great freeway pileup--part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Hendrick Hertzberg, The New Yorker \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Washington Post \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"Real glamour needs a dark side. That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal's wonderful book.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Economist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"Thoroughly reported and engrossing . . . the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Michael Blowen, The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis McDougal writes about Hollywood for the New York Times. A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, he won more than forty awards for his hard-nosed coverage of the entertainment industry. He is the bestselling author of The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood and Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trade Paper Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844531720466,"sku":"9780470422823","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dcb82779-ab5a-4d9d-9a71-d9ee86024875.jpg?v=1737324040","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/five-easy-decades-how-jack-nicholson-became-the-biggest-movie-star-in-modern-times-9780470422823","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}