In this compulsively readable memoir, Peter Bart, longtime editor-in-chief of Variety, takes readers behind-the-scenes of some of the most iconic films of the '60s and '70s, and details his own whirlwind journey to the forefront of a Hollywood revolution.

Peter Bart started his career as a newsman with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, spent seventeen years as a film executive (VP of Paramount, Sr VP of MGM, and President of Lorimar), and then returned to journalism as editor in chief of Variety. Along the way, he was responsible for four nonfiction books (The Gross, Fade Out, Boffo, and Who Killed Hollywood?), two novels (Thy Kingdom Come and, with Denne Bart Petitclerc, Destinies), a short story collection (Dangerous Company), and Shoot Out, a book of essays cowritten with Peter Guber, which became the basis for the weekly network television show currently hosted by Bart and Guber on NBC and the Encore Network.