Nancy Griffin

Kim Masters

Interviews and details of high-level meetings and manipulation inform an account of how two Hollywood operators managed the richest deal in Hollywood history. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Hit and Run

How Jon Peters and Peter Gruber took Sony for a ride in Hollywood.

How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood

I recalled the most memorable times I had with him. Some were funny, and some were serious. It seemed like we never had a dull moment in our lives. We did enjoy the time we had together and with our children. He was the man that I thought he would never be. He proved his love to me many times, even when I was too stubborn to see. I wanted him as much as he wanted me. Our children understood the love we had for our family. Those children are the results of our love. I will always love my first love, my only love, Steve McFall.

The Diary of Steve Mcfall and Kaddie Griffin

Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his soulless soul mate, Peter Guber -- and all the sex, drugs, and fistfights along the way. It is the story of the ultimate Hollywood con job and the standard by which every subsequent business blunder has been measured. Hit and Run delivers rock-solid business reporting liberally laced with inside gossip and outrageous scandal -- plus a new afterword bringing us up to date on the latest fallout from the Guber-Peters legacy.

The ultimate to-do list for Mainers and visitors alike What better way to celebrate 50 years of book publishing than to celebrate the greatest things Maine has to offer. Following the popular trend in “bucket list” books, this experiential guide will help visitors and residents alike discover everything there is to do here. Taken all together, these experiences are enough to fill a life time.

50 Things to Do in Maine Before You Die

Steven Ehrlich

Residential design forms the core of Steven Ehrlich's award-winning architectural practice. Sixteen houses are presented here, designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place. Ehrlich spent six years living, teaching, traveling, and studying indigenous vernacular architecture in North and West Africa. During that time he was immersed in the visceral power and raw beauty of “Architecture Without Architects” and dazzled by settings like the luminous Zaria Mosque in Nigeria, the textured hill towns of Tunisia, the maze-like souks of Fez, the protected and intimate courtyard houses of Marrakesh, the gravity-defying raised forts of Ghana, and the interconnected desert cities of Algeria. At the same time Ehrlich had a deep commitment to modernism, with its focus on minimalism, honesty in materials, and rooted connection to the land. Over a thirty-year career he has brought these two strands together in the houses he has designed in the desert landscape of Southern California and the Southwest. There are commonalities in these houses—generous volumes, visual clarity, large windows, interlocking rooms, protected courtyards, structural honesty, richly textured materials, and a connection to nature—but each home is a new beginning, a chance to learn and to create a spatial experience.

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