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Article: Fatal Subtraction.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1992
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FATAL SUBTRACTION. By Pierce O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal. Doubleday; 576 pages; $25
HOLLYWOOD has had a rough old time of it in bookshops recently. First there was "You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again", an acid memoir of 1970s Tinseltown by the producer of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Then "The Devil's Candy" chronicled the making of the megaflop film based on a best-seller by Tom Wolfe, "The Bonfire of the Vanities", and the desperate attempts by Hollywood's top people to dissociate themselves from it. Michael Meved's topical attack on the entertainment industry's values, "Hollywood vs. America", has just hit the stands.
Now there is "Fatal ...