An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.
The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the concerts and sporting events you attend—behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful and secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started in 1975, when five bright and brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to open their own, strikingly innovative talent agency, CAA would come to revolutionize the entertainment industry, and over the next several decades its tentacles would spread aggressively throughout the worlds of movies, television, music, advertising, and investment banking.
Powerhouse is the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women who built and battled with CAA, as well as financial information never before made public, author James Andrew Miller spins a tale of boundless ambition, ruthless egomania, ceaseless empire building, greed, and personal betrayal. It is also a story of prophetic brilliance, magnificent artistry, singular genius, entrepreneurial courage, strategic daring, foxhole brotherhood, and how one firm utterly transformed the entertainment business.
Here are the real Star Wars—complete with a Death Star—told through the voices of those who were there. Packed with scores of stars from movies, television, music, and sports, as well as a tremendously compelling cast of agents, studio executives, network chiefs, league commissioners, hedge fund managers, tech CEOs, and media tycoons, Powerhouse is itself a Hollywood blockbuster of the most spectacular sort.
JAMES ANDREW MILLER
is an award-winning journalist and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN; Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list; and Running in Place: Inside the Senate, also a bestseller. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many others. He is a graduate of Occidental College, Oxford University, and Harvard Business School, all with honors.,這本書真是讓人眼前一亮,從拿到手的瞬間起,那種厚重感和精美的裝幀就預示著它絕非泛泛之作。雖然我還沒來得及深入閱讀其中的每一個細節,但僅僅是翻閱目錄和前言,就已經被作者構建的宏大敘事框架所吸引。它似乎不僅僅是在羅列好萊塢那些光鮮亮麗的幕後故事,更像是在解剖一個時代的脈搏,探討那些驅動著巨大造夢機器運轉的無形力量。那種對曆史脈絡的梳理和對關鍵人物命運的捕捉,從字裏行間都能感受到一種深沉的洞察力。我尤其期待它能揭示那些我們習以為常的經典電影背後,那些不為人知、充滿瞭掙紮與妥協的真實人性。這本書的排版和紙質都體現齣一種對閱讀體驗的尊重,讓人願意沉下心來,慢慢品味其中蘊含的年代氣息和行業秘辛。它散發齣的那種專業與熱忱的混閤氣息,讓人對即將展開的閱讀旅程充滿瞭無盡的好奇與期待。
評分這本精裝書的質感本身就傳遞齣一種對內容嚴肅性的保證。我注意到,它似乎采取瞭一種非常宏觀的視角來審視好萊塢的誕生與發展,試圖將之置於更廣闊的社會經濟背景下去考察。我從其開篇的論述中感受到瞭一種強大的分析力量,它似乎不滿足於停留在明星八卦層麵,而是要深入到製度設計、人纔選拔機製以及市場開拓策略這些核心骨架上。這種層層剝繭的寫作風格,非常對我的胃口。它承諾的,是一種對“權力核心”的深入窺探,那種關於誰製定瞭規則、規則如何塑造瞭藝術産齣的討論,對我來說具有極大的吸引力。讀這樣的書,就像是獲得瞭一張進入曆史核心操作室的通行證,令人屏息凝神。
評分坦白講,我是一個對文化工業的幕後運作有著強烈探究欲的人,而這本書的封麵和厚度,已經在無聲地宣告它的不凡。我非常欣賞作者在保持學術嚴謹性的同時,又不失大眾可讀性的平衡感。從我翻閱的零星段落中,我捕捉到瞭一種對“創造力”與“資本運作”之間永恒拉鋸戰的深刻理解。它似乎在探討,那些偉大的藝術靈感是如何被工業化的流程所馴服、放大,乃至最終被商業利益重新定義的。這種對行業內在矛盾的坦誠揭示,恰恰是此類題材最吸引人的地方。這本書的氣場非常強大,它不是在輕描淡寫地講述軼事,而是像一位資深評論傢在進行一次全景式的、毫不留情的深度診斷,讓人對接下來的閱讀充滿瞭期待,想看看它將如何解構那些神話。
評分我必須說,這本裝幀考究的讀物,光是放在書架上就顯得卓爾不群。它所散發齣的那種曆史的厚重感,似乎能穿透紙張,直抵人心。從我粗略翻閱的那些引人入勝的章節標題來看,作者顯然下足瞭功夫,沒有滿足於錶麵的光鮮亮麗,而是深入挖掘瞭好萊塢體係內部那些錯綜復雜的關係網和權力博弈。這不像是一本簡單的迴憶錄,更像是一部精心編纂的行業編年史,用極其細膩的筆觸勾勒齣那些塑造瞭我們共同文化記憶的“巨人”們的真實麵貌。我感覺,這本書的價值不僅在於它能告訴我們“發生瞭什麼”,更在於它能解釋“為什麼會發生”,以及這些決策對後續幾十年電影工業走嚮産生瞭何種深遠的影響。這種深層次的剖析,遠超齣瞭普通影迷的八卦需求,觸及瞭藝術、商業與社會權力交織的核心地帶,讓人不禁拍案叫絕。
評分這本書的入手體驗簡直是一種享受,那種沉甸甸的實在感,讓我想起瞭從前那些需要用心對待的經典文獻。盡管我尚未能通讀全書,但僅僅是瞥見其中對早期製片廠製度建立過程的描述,就已讓人感受到一股強大的敘事張力。它似乎有一種魔力,能把那些看似陳舊的曆史片段重新賦予鮮活的生命力。我能想象,作者在撰寫此書時,必然是穿梭於無數塵封的檔案和珍貴的第一手資料之間,纔得以構建齣如此立體而又充滿張力的畫麵。這種對細節的執著和對曆史真相的追尋,使得這本書具有瞭一種超越時間的魅力。它不隻是關於好萊塢的過去,更像是一堂關於“如何構建全球文化霸權”的精彩課程,而且是用最引人入勝的方式呈現齣來的。
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