Hit and Run
How Jon Peters and Peter Guber took Sony for a ride in Hollywood
by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters
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Book Presentation:
Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two film packagers well known for spending other people's money and ripping off credit for other people's work went on a deliberate campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives. With the exception of Batman, Jon Peters and Peter Guber were barely involved with the most successful films they "produced." Steven Spielberg wouldn't allow them on the set of The Color Purple, and they werre on the set of Rain Man only once, briefly. With the help of one of Michael Milken's top lieutenants, they succeeded. It was the most audacious sales job of their careers: This unlikely team got Sony to give them the richest deal in Hollywood history.
About the authors:
Nancy Griffin Nancy Griffin is the Deputy Editor of Premiere and lives in New York and Los Angeles. Photo: Douglas Kirkland
Press Reviews:
The sometimes comic and often outrageous tale of two high-flying producers who were inexplicably chosen by Sony to run Columbia Pictures. -- The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Weinraub
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