Nat Segaloff
Auteur de A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison
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Œuvres de Nat Segaloff
The Everything Tall Tales, Legends & Other Outrageous Lies Book (Everything Series) (2001) 27 exemplaires
The Everything Etiquette Book: Mind Your Manners with Family and Friends, Announcements and Invitations, Business,… (1997) 25 exemplaires
The Town That Said No 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
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- [from author's website]
Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry as commerce (rather than as gossip) for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer, and independent stations).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Membres
- 251
- Popularité
- #91,086
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 1
Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Century of Scarface by Nat Segaloff is a history of the 1983 film. Mr. Segaloff is a writer, journalist, and producer.
Say Hello to My Little Friend by Nat Segaloff tells of the production of the 1983 film and its legacy. Much of the book is also about the 1932 Scarface which was the inspiration.
The infatuation with the mafia is not new, D.W. Griffith’s version (starting Paul Muni) was certainly tame compared to Brian DePalma’s bloodfest due to 1930s censorship, but the movie was still a hit. I am still a sucker for movies about antiheroes, exposing America’s dark side.
The book goes through the storyline of both movies, as well as behind-the-scenes anecdotes. How Steven Bauer (who also wrote the forward) helped Al Pacino with his Cuban accent, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio get into their respective roles and the great Robert Loggia’s contributions. I got a kick out of how screenwriter Oliver Stone chose the name of Tony Montana.
Every time I read a book about movies, it seems to me to be a miracle that a final product was actually put out, double that if the movie is actually good. I know there has to be a lot of planning, but it seems to me that a great amount of pure luck is always involved.
I enjoyed reading this book and learned a few things as well. It reminded me of a movie I’ve enjoyed since seeing it in 1983, and made me want to see it one more time.… (plus d'informations)