| Sumario: | An entertaining look at Tinseltown's most notorious big-screen disasters The only thing moviegoers love more than car crashes and explosions is watching a film go up in flames. Every season brings a number of financial disappointments, but it takes extraordinary circumstances-pampered stars, titanic egos, extensive rewrites, dying genres, and a startling indifference to budget overruns-for a project to become a truly iconic disaster like Ishtar or Waterworld. In Fiasco, James Robert Parish goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the 15 top flops in Hollywood movie history, from Cleopatra, Paint Your Wagon, and The Cotton Club to Battlefield Earth, Showgirls, and The Postman. Parish delivers the real goods: all the gossip, the grosses, and the egregious ego battles behind these benchmark fiascos-and gives film buffs the most entertaining and informative book of the year. James Robert Parish (Los Angeles, CA) is the author of many books on the film/TV industry, including The Hollywood Book of Scandals (0-071-42189-0) and The Hollywood Book of Death (0-809-22227-2).
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