High Concept

Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess

By: Charles Fleming

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Paperback | 1 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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12.8 x 19.9 x 2.7

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Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, High Concept takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in the Hollywood history. The revelations in High Concept are astounding! Through intensive research Fleming has created a dramatic tale of the rise of the key players and how the Don Simpson way became the Hollywood way. Through an interwoven narrative of the decadence and greed, hypocrisy and hysteria, profligacy and moral emptiness of the key power brokers, Fleming returns to the core concept of excess and how it continues to drive Hollywood.

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Hollywood took a shy, fat boy from Alaska and made him a drug-addled, sex-obsessed monster. This is the cautionary tale of that boy and what can happen when you wish for something and get it. Don Simpson became king of the action movie, but began to believe his own scripts. It's sleazy, disgusting and degrading and it grips from the first paragraph. Very few books are truly unputdownable, but this one is. (Kirkus UK)

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