false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172727798m/211005.jpg 211005 2 <div>Peter Biskind authored two of the most talked about and read books of the last decade&#8212;Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-&#8217;n&#8217;-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood and its bestselling sequel Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. Gods and Monsters chronicles the cause and courses of Hollywood over the last three decades&#8212;the super freaks, lowlifes, charlatans and occasional geniuses who have left their bite mark on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind&#8217;s career. The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters as do the casualties of the counterculture and the New Hollywood&#8212;the story of Sue Menges, the &#8217;70s &#8220;super-agent&#8221; whose career went mysteriously south, is extraordinarily poignant, as is the example of Terence Malick, whose light shone so brightly in the same period but then disappeared until 1997&#8217;s The Thin Red Line. But at the heart of the book are the likes of Warren Beatty, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford and Quentin Tarantino and uber-producers Don Simpson and Harvey Weinstein and their excess lifestyles, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry.</div> 204221 8 11 2004 Gods and Monsters: Movers, Shakers, and Other Casualties of the Hollywood Machine total:12|5:1|4:2|3:5|2:4| 12 36 36 1 2 0 false false Wed Jul 09 22:14:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 22:17:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 14:38:55 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:38:55 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Sep 21 11:07:19 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:07:19 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Sep 04 21:07:53 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 21:07:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 31 01:25:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 01:25:38 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Aug 23 14:46:10 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:46:10 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jul 08 14:44:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 14:44:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 31 08:18:41 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 08:18:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 13 01:15:33 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 01:15:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 27 04:47:48 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 04:47:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 13:13:34 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 13:13:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 07:25:15 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:25:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 21:56:35 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:56:43 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 28 16:09:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 16:09:00 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Sep 14 15:47:41 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 15:47:41 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 15 11:22:37 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:22:37 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 09 17:42:51 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 17:42:51 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 01 07:01:29 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 07:01:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jun 19 02:01:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 02:01:47 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jun 07 12:59:05 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 12:59:12 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=211005