EVENING @ THE BARN "Whatever Happened to Hollywood?"

Screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. tells his Hollywood tales as an insider, with stories and insights sparkling with poetry, humor and the heat of first-hand observation. The son of the man who produced Hollywood's first feature film, Jesse's book is the history of the film industry, the birth of an art form and a compelling personal memoir. There are revealing portraits of Lasky Sr., and his partners Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille (for whom Jesse wrote eight films, including "The Ten Commandments) - plus photos of him and friends and colleagues such as Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Cohn, Darryl Zanuck, Nick Ray and Sam Fuller. From dating Jean Harlow to writing for Gary Cooper, Edward G. Robinson and Yul Brynner, there are the artists and the conmen, the breathtaking creativity and the destructive treachery, described by a man who knew everyone and saw everything.

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