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	The Whole Equation by David Thomson Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.50 Excellent book by David Thomson, an obligatory read for any fan of the movies...
	Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.39 Excellent biography of key filmmaker of the 20th Century...
	The Aviator [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £0.72 Enjoyable biopic of first half of Howard Hughes' life....
	Killer Instinct: How Two Young Producers Took on Hollywood and Made the Most Controversial Film of the Decade by Jane Hamsher Buy used from: £6.25 One to read around the NBK furore and egos like Stone & Tarantino...
	"The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics) by Nathanael West Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £3.19 One of the greatest novels of the 20th Century (later made into a so-so film)....
	Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £3.98 This and 'Which Lie Did I Tell?' are great insights into Hollywood...
	The Deer Park by Norman Mailer Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.01 One of Mailer's best works alongside 'The Naked & the Dead', 'The Executioner's Song', 'Harlot's Ghost' & 'An American Dream'
	Notes on the Making of "Apocalypse Now" by Eleanor Coppola Buy used from: £3.74 Literary companion to 'Hearts of Darkness', both of which centred around 'Apocalypse Now'/'Redux'
	Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of "Heaven's Gate" by Steven Bach Buy used from: £0.26 Insightful study of United Artists demise, centred on the underrated 'Heaven's Gate'
	The Last Tycoon (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Buy new: £5.52 / Used from: £3.00 ...
	The Player [DVD] [1992] Buy used from: £6.10 Altman's comeback film from the early 1990s and very good it is too. See also that episode of The Simpsons and Mamet's 'State and Main'
	The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Hollywood Life by Robert Evans Buy used from: £0.53 Like 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' this was made into a not as good documentary...
	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Decline & Fall of the Movie Brats...
	The Bad and the Beautiful: Portraits of Hollywood in the Fifties by Sam Kashner Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 Takes its title from a key Hollywood movie; when will 'Two Weeks in Another Town' turn up on DVD?
	Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger Buy used from: £3.06 Kenneth Anger's classic book on Hollywood...
	Suspects by David Thomson Buy used from: £1.06 In need of reissue...maybe with an introduction by Gilbert Adair?
	Picture by Lillian Ross Buy used from: £12.83 ...
	You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.21 The late producer of 'Taxi Driver' & 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
	Who the Hell's In It by Peter Bogdanovich Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Bogdanovich was a great film historian/writer prior to his own ascent, decline & fall....
	My Movie Business by John Irving Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.99 Haven't read this yet - the adaptations of Irving's novels have been mostly so-so...
	I, Fatty: A Novel by Jerry Stahl Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 ...
	Conversations with Billy Wilder by Cameron Crowe Buy used from: £26.24 The last decent thing Cameron Crowe's been involved with...
	What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Frontline by Art Linson Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 I enjoyed this insight into Hollywood production....
	High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess by Charles Fleming Buy used from: £0.01 Where American cinema went wrong in the 1980s (not financially, but in just about every other way)
	Sunset Boulevard [DVD] [1950] Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £84.00 One of the greatest films ever made and the best film about Hollywood.