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the Formula For Hollywood Success Has Long Baffled Even Its Greatest Visionaries. For Every Blockbuster There Are Countless Flops. Directors, Producers, And Actors Who Achieve Great Success With One Film Often Suffer Abject Humiliation On The Next. in boffo! Peter Bart, The Editor-in-chief Of variety, And The Former Studio Executive Whose Hits Include the Godfather And rosemary S Baby, Reveals The Backlot Secrets Behind The Biggest Hits And Misses In Film, Television, And Theater: How Some Projects With The Biggest Stars And Budgets Turned Out To Be Bombs And How Unknowns Overcame Great Adversity To Make Entertainment History. In So Doing, Bart Tells The History Of Pop Culture Itself. Bart Offers His Signature Straight-shooting Analysis Of The Silk Purses And The Sows Ears Of The Entertainment World. peter Bart Started His Career As A Newsman With The wall Street Journal And The new York Times, Then Spent Seventeen Years As A Film Executive (vice President Of Paramount, Senior Vice President Of Mgm, President Of Lorimar Film Co.) Only To Return To Journalism As Editor-in-chief Of variety. Along The Way, He Was Responsible For Seven Books, Including shoot-out, Written With Peter Guber (the Basis For Their Current Weekly Television Show), dangerous Company (a Short Story Collection), And Two Nonfiction Books, the Gross And fade Out.