Picture Shows: The Life and Films of Peter Bogdanovich

by Andrew Yule

If Peter Bogdanovich did not already exist, Hollywould would perhaps have invted him. The son of struggling but cultured immigrant parents, he grew up on Manhattan's West Side and soon developed a passion for that other world of film and theatre. By his early twentites he had already acted in, directed and produced plays off-Broadway and written about film for major newspapers and magazines. Then, married, he made his way to Hollywood, gaining attention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879101539
• ISBN13: 9780879101534
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Limelight
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The most unbiased account of Dorothy Stratten

If you are interested in the life and death of 1980's slain Playboy Playmate of the Year, Dorothy Stratten, more than half of this book is devoted to her. Not only does it include the important role she played in Bogdanovich's life, but it is a descriptive "biography within a biography". I highly recommend this book on that account, even more so than Bogdanovich's biography of her, "The Killing of the Unicorn." The reason being that Andrew Yule uses unbiased evidence to describe the cirucumstanses of her incredibly amazing, but tragically short life. It also gives the LAPD account of her gruesome murder, which according to Mr. Yule is not accurate in the "Killing of the Unicorn". If you saw the recent television biography of Dorothy Stratten and you want to know more, I cannot recommend this book enough.