Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. CroweNow available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and even made sure that it was trained correctly on the stars. At the end of the day, there would be no blinking movie screens, no blinking Oscar winners, no finished films, good or bad, without the Assistant Director. Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, working on countless films before his retirement in the middle-nineties. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors, and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood including his work on the sets of Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, and Jerry Maguire. Written with the craft and humor that made Jerry Ziesmer one of the most sought-after assistant directors in Hollywood, this book will be a treasure for students and fans of twentieth-century Hollywood. Cloth edition previously published in 2000. |
Contents
Tom Cruise and Jerry Maguire | 1 |
It Began in Milwaukee | 11 |
Hello Dolly | 19 |
Tell Me That You Love Me Junie Moon | 23 |
The Great White Hope | 27 |
Lost Horizon | 42 |
The Way We Were | 48 |
The Wrath of God | 100 |
Straight Time | 301 |
Sylvester Stallone and Rocky II | 305 |
The Steven Spielberg Films | 333 |
Part I | 359 |
John Huston and Annie | 361 |
Al Pacino and Scarface | 390 |
Mel Gibson and The River | 400 |
Peter Bogdanovich | 402 |
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