You Gotta See This: More Than 100 of Hollywood's Best Reveal and Discuss Their Favorite Films

Overview

In time for Oscar season, Hollywood's top stars talk about the movies that move them

Everyone has a favorite movie-even movie stars themselves. In You Gotta See This, veteran entertainment reporter Cindy Pearlman gets the scoop on the top movie picks of Hollywood's entertainment elite. Through over one hundred interviews with actors, writers, and directors, Pearlman discovers the eclectic-and sometimes surprising-tastes of the people who make the movies we love:
Jet Li discusses the "Buddhist themes" that made him a lifelong Star Wars fan
Johnny Depp talks about how The Wizard of Oz gave him hope of escaping his bleak childhood in rural Florida
Jennifer Lopez recalls the inspiration of seeing "proof that my people could sing, dance, and act" in West Side Story
Vin Deisel explains why he considers Gone With the Wind "the ultimate action movie"

From Bruce Willis on Dr. Strangelove to Jim Carrey on Network, You Gotta See This is a compulsively readable, star-studded tribute to the movies.

Editorial Reviews

What is your favorite movie of all time? This is the question Pearlman, senior entertainment writer for the New York Times Syndicate, asked hundreds of Hollywood heavy hitters over the past two years, resulting in this collection of more than 100 incisive interviews with actors, screenwriters and directors. High points include David Cronenberg explaining why Fellini's La Dolce Vita remains his perennial favorite ("How many modern directors deserve to be adjectives?") and Julianne Moore admitting "there's nothing I love better than a scary movie" in her discussion of Rosemary's Baby. The collection also unearths the inspiration that set some on the path to stardom: Jennifer Lopez says that West Side Story left her "in that dark theater crying because here was my proof that my people could sing, dance, and act," while Johnny Depp fell for The Wizard of Oz because he "wanted to have a tornado sweep me up and take me away from the life I was living as a teenager." This slim book's brilliance lies in its numerous reminders that even stars are movie fans, too; it should hold great interest for cineastes hoping to expand their horizons and average pop culture junkies alike.
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Bio of Cindy Pearlman

Cindy Pearlman is the senior entertainment writer for the New York Times Syndicate where she has been interviewing top film and music stars for the past eighteen years. Her work appears frequently in Entertainment Weekly, People, Self, In Touch, National Geographic, and Redbook, among others.

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Plume

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344.69 KB

Number of Pages

272

eBook ISBN

9781429551649