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Not So Quiet on the Set : My Life in Movies During Hollywood's Macho Era

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"An extraordinarily entertaining look inside the film industry ."- Pierce Brosnan, award-winning actor and producer A veteran of over fifty years in the film industry, Robert E. Relyea gives a behind-the-scenes, first-person look into Hollywood's moviemaking landscape during the pre- and post-Kennedy years in America. Not So Quiet on the Set is Elvis Presley wishing for a normal life during a break in recording the soundtrack for Jailhouse Rock . It's dealing with street gangs and studio politics while making West Side Story . It's trying to stay alive while working side by side with John Wayne on The Alamo . It's crashing an authentic Nazi warplane against a hillside in Germany during The Great Escape . It's getting fired by the studio while filming Bullitt in San Francisco and it's battling runaway budgets and Steve McQueen's demons in France while making Le Mans . Not So Quiet on the Set presents rare insights into the mechanics and politics of filmmaking and helps define a dynamic period in Hollywood history. A unique collaboration between father and son, it is a real-life adventure that not only illustrates how the movie industry really works but provides a revealing portrait of Hollywood's loss of innocence.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780595713325
  • ISBN-10: 0595713327
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • Publish Date: May 2008
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.94 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.46 pounds
  • Page Count: 348

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