Book: ‘How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying P.S. You Can’t!’ by Melville Shavelson
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.16, 2019, under Books
How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying P.S. You Can’t! by Melville Shavelson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a funny book full of tales of wrestling with Hollywood. The latter is pretty typical for a Hollywood book. Difference is, as others try, this one is funny.
This book does have a trouble throughout the entire book of very rarely noting the date or even year any instance happened. The reader is stuck having to figure out just what decade instances are helping. Not helping is Shavelson often bringing up flashbacks and then continuing the linear history. That’s when it’s tough to tell what time period he is writing about. Thus, the overall planning of the book is a bit slipshod. Luckily Shavelson is a good writer to carry through the troubles.
Shavelson revels that he can write whatever he wants due to, basically, self-publishing this book. That begs the question as to why he skips past many of his accomplishments. I’d guess this was his way of avoiding whatever it was he wanted to avoid. Those of us that knows he skips books and movies he worked on will feel short changed. Per chance this is a problem I have with Shavelson films. His films tend to be drawn out too long and seem to miss scenes to keep the film together.
A real plus is a very good index.
Bottomline: I recommend this book. 6 out of 10 points.
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