Title: A poorly edited book
Product review: Great stories from a showbiz legend, but where was the editor? I found myself frustrated by the author's wonderful voice struggling to rise to the surface of this disorganized, lazy mess. The book feels a little like a first draft to this reader (though I'm not in the film business, so maybe this is just the way they write out there). This is a great shame because I have a feeling Mr. Brillstein would be tremendously entertaining around a dinner table (if he just left his dimwitted editor at home!)For an ultimately more satisfying read,I would suggest the William Goldman memoir or the recent John Irving book about film adaptations. With these books, somebody else has already separated the wheat from the chaff, so you don't have to!
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