He and Peter Guber were basically con men and ran the studio almost to bankruptcy . What I like about this book is the insider view of Hollywood.
Style wins out over substance all the time, everywhere.
Harvey's an amazing photographer. He was my roommate when I lived in New York , so I had to get this book. It's mostly interviews and stories about these really wonderful, intense eccentrics all over America, along with portraits done in a really benevolent, understanding way. It's about artificial intelligence on computers, the nature of intelligence and of what it would mean for a computer to be intelligent. A lot of the book is a rant against the artificial intelligence research community, which claims computer programs are exhibiting intelligence when they're really just rigidly completing a series.