Authors: Dale Pollock
ISBN-13: 9780306809040, ISBN-10: 0306809044
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: Updated
Dale Pollock is president of Peak Productions and a successful producer of twelve feature films (which have received four Academy Award nominations). A former film critic for Daily Variety and chief film reporter for the Los Angeles Times, he lives in Los Angeles.
"Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of filmm"
Acknowledgments | ||
The Crash | ||
1 | It Wasn't My Fault | 1 |
2 | When Things Were Simpler | 11 |
3 | Reality Stops Here | 41 |
4 | Coping with Coppola | 73 |
5 | Rocking Around the Clock | 99 |
6 | The Vision of Star Wars | 131 |
7 | The Agony and the Ecstasy of Star Wars | 159 |
8 | How I Spent My Retirement | 191 |
9 | Ruling the Empire | 231 |
10 | A Time Not So Far Away | 265 |
11 | Back to Basics | 279 |
Filmography | 307 | |
Source Notes | 319 | |
Index | 327 |