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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood Paperback - 1997

by Nancy Griffin; Kim Masters

Featuring a new Afterword by the authors, "Hit & Run" tells the incredible, often hilarious story of the ultimate Hollywood con job. Drawing on interviews with people at every level of the Hollywood power structure, Griffin and Masters chronicle how two inept but nervy guys drove one of the world's largest corporations over the edge.


Summary

Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his soulless soul mate, Peter Guber -- and all the sex, drugs, and fistfights along the way. It is the story of the ultimate Hollywood con job and the standard by which every subsequent business blunder has been measured. Hit and Run delivers rock-solid business reporting liberally laced with inside gossip and outrageous scandal -- plus a new afterword bringing us up to date on the latest fallout from the Guber-Peters legacy.

From the publisher

Nancy Griffin is the West Coast Editor of Esquire magazine and the former Deputy Editor of Premiere. She lives in Los Angeles.

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ON THE SUNNY AFTERNOON of September 16, 1955, ten-year-old John Peters was playing in the street near his family's ranch house at 13215 Bloomfield Street in Sherman Oaks, a San Fernando Valley suburb of Los Angeles.

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  • Title Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
  • Author Nancy Griffin; Kim Masters
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition EXCELLENT READER
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-06-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684832661 / 0684832666
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.56 x 1.31 in (21.84 x 14.12 x 3.33 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96013102
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Nancy Griffin is the West Coast Editor of Esquire magazine and the former Deputy Editor of Premiere. She lives in Los Angeles.
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