Hollywood Animal

May 5, 2025 5:46 PM

Author:Joe Eszterhas

Hollywood Animal

He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the world-wide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous - or infamous - screenwriter in Hollywood.

Reviews

Incendiary

—— Arena

Compelling ... As gripping as it is harrowing

—— Sunday Times

Monstrously entertaining ... you turn the pages faster and faster, with guilty admiration

—— Evening Standard

I laughed like a hyena reading Hollywood Animal ... I couldn't put it down

—— Christopher Bray , Literary Review

Eszterhas is a wonderful storyteller, and Hollywood Animal is irresistibly entertaining. The gods look down, and we look up, dazzled by the light

—— Guardian

A rigorously researched, incisively written and fascinating book

—— The Oldie

Meyers is very good

—— Catholic Herald

One of the least likely liaisons in showbiz, the marriage between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller followed a predictable trajectory which Jeffrey Meyers illuminates with fascinating filigree.

—— Independent

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