num_pages: 576
description: When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began.First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud . . . until his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically and poignantly would end.
language: English
title: Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
titlecomplete: Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials)
genres: History, Film, Media Tie In, Biography, Business, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime
ratings_count: 261
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Harper Business