Has anybody read "Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System" by Sharon Waxman?



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...books&v=glance

I don't normally like these gossipy books and it probably won't say anything I don't already know but one of the chapters is devoted to David Fincher. I'll buy it because I'm a Fincher-whore but was curious if anybody else has picked it up?

Yeah I got it a while ago. I hated it. It spotlights all these great directors and interviews them, but all the book is about is sort of their childhood and dishing dirt on all of them. I thought it would be sort of like rebel without a crew, you know sort of explaning how they came to be filmmakers, what they went through, the craft of filmmaking, their distinct styles, but it's not. It's tabloid bs. It's just, One director pissed off this person. Another director ditched his mom and friends.

It's not even interested tabloid. It's very biased and told to make all the directors off as being horrible people.

The thing that pissed me off the most is she talks about how all of the directors left home and ditched their mothers behind, never speaking to them again, but in the interview it talks about how horrible parents they were, so it's this real double standard b.s.

Here's an interview with her:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4465580

Thanks, lww! I probably skip it then.