A thousand cuts
Subtitle: the bizarre underground world of collectors and dealers who saved the movies
By: Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph
Contributors: Joseph, Jeff, 1953- author
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781496807731
Subjects: Motion pictures; Collectors and collecting; Societies
Description: "The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne discussing Rock Hudson's secret 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening King Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow recounting his decades-long quest to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Other lesser-known but equally fascinating subjects include one-legged former Broadway dancer Tony Turano, who lives in a Norma Desmond-like world of decaying movie memories, and notorious film pirate Al Beardsley, one of the men responsible for putting O. J. Simpson behind bars. Authors examine one of the least-known episodes in modern legal history: the FBI’s and Justice Department's campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. Victims included Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé"
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hollywood vs. Evan H. Foreman; title: An expensive hobby; title: The Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society; title: The Tuesday Night Film Club; title: Rock Hudson's hidden film vault; title: Lockdown; title: South of Sunset Boulevard; title: A dying art?; title: The house of clocks; title: Child of Frankenstein; title: Have some onions, they'll make you fat; title: Restoring the audience; title: A woman in film; title: Captain Ahab and The Triffids; title: Something weird; title: The theory of creative destruction; title: A thousand cuts; title: The score; title: A younger generation of collectors; title: The man who went to jail for the movies; title: Epilogue; title: Special thanks; title: Notes; title: Glossary.