Title: Muck Raking with Charles
Product review: Are you interested in knowing about the Industry, what high concept is and its effect on today's motion pictures? If so, don't buy this book. Author Charles Fleming is more interested in exposing Don Simpson as a lying, pill-popping, whore whipping, dictatorial ego-maniac than as the inventor of how modern Hollywood now creates product for your local multiplex. The book is entertaining in a very voyeuristic way. "Oooh, did he really do this?" "Ugh, what a scuzzball". But after awhile it all becomes long and boring. While the underbelly of Hollywood isn't for the timid, Fleming seems to take great relish damming Simpson and all his kind to the hell that they have created. For my money, I would rather have learned more about the development of High Concept, how it was accepted and its current effects on how decisions are made and films produced. You'll find better writing in the National Enquirer or the Star than High Concept
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