This Hardcover Book item from Knopf was reviewed on 9-Sep-2008.
Search ISBN:1400042488 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties Reference Book. Classifications : History & Criticism Criticism General Regional Themes Women in Art Arts & Photography Subjects Books General Photography Arts & Photography Subjects Books Photo Essays Photography Arts & Photography S . Click the following link to view the cover of Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties. Related topics: History & Criticism. Criticism. General. Regional. Themes. Women in Art. Arts & Photography. Subjects. Books. General. requestid: 0c3719f9-e75d-47d2-b4e8-827a8456434d
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1) Hardcover Book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by Knopf. I have NOT received this item yet!! I can not believe the POOR shipping system of Amazon!!¤ 2) Hardcover Book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by Knopf. I work in "the business", and have been nominated myself for the great gold statue (Best Documentary, 1997). This is one of my faavorite books on Hollywood history. Not only does it show many of the great stars and movers-and-shakers of the different eras, but it shows them at their most relaxed, spontaneous andpersonal best. A very well designed and thoughfully annotated book- a deserved element for a lifeloing collection.¤ 3) Hardcover Book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by Knopf. man this was a good book. oscars rule. and Julia is the greatest star EVER!!!¤ 4) Hardcover Book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by Knopf. This is a beautiful coffee table book and any Oscar or film fan will love it. From the opening photo of producer Buddy Adler´s Oscar sitting on the shelf of a hat rack at Romanoff´s Restaurant to the final now famous photo of Faye Dunaway sitting by her pool the morning after she won her award, this is a very special book. It is filled of course with great photos of the winners themselves but also contains other interesting mementos, like ticket stubs, seating programs, invitations, dinner menus, sample ballots, telegrams, memos, etc. Also photos of Hollywood landmarks, like Ciro´s, Ambassador Hotel, Biltmore Bowl, Beverly Hills Hilton and the Beverly Hills Hotel are included. Most of the early celebrity photos were taken at the banquets and formal dinner celebrations and it is funny seeing all these people smoking and surrounded by liquor bottles on the tables. The book is in chronological order and the photos near the end of the book (from previous years parties) are smaller but much more numerous. The captions that accompany the photos are fantastic - they are not mere snippets but interesting lengthy paragraphs full of fascinating information. Included throughout the book are sketches and essays written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and quotes from the columns of Louella Parsons and Hedda Harper. An afterword by Dominick Dunne and a list of winners, year-by-year compelte this fascinating book.¤ 5) Hardcover Book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties by Knopf. From the first Academy Awards black-tie dinner dance in 1929 to the glittering Vanity Fair gala in 2004, from the 1940s gatherings at the most fashionable nightspots in Los Angeles–Ciro’s, Mocambo, Romanoff’s, Chasen’s–to the star-studded parties thrown by legendary agent Swifty Lazar from the 1960s to the 1990s, here is a photo history of all those events, presented by Graydon Carter and David Friend. More than five hundred archival and personal black-and-white and color photographs–many never seen before–have been collected in Oscar Night. There is an afterword by Dominick Dunne and a look at every detail, from menus to matchbooks to seating charts.
You’ll see intimate and unposed photographs of such classic icons as Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, Gloria Swanson, David O. Selznick, and Alfred Hitchcock, among many others, at the formal dinners of the 1930s through the 1950s. Here also are amazing photographs of another generation of icons at the exclusive Governors Balls: Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, and John Belushi, Dennis Hopper with Michelle Phillips, and a very young Ali MacGraw dancing with Robert Evans. And here is a mix of New York and Hollywood at Swifty’s parties, with pictures of Bianca Jagger, Sam Shepard, Michael Caine, David Geffen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Ahmet Erteguns. Here, too, is the Hollywood that gathers today at the Vanity Fair Oscar party: Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Sofia Coppola, Sigourney Weaver, Fran Lebowitz, Sean Combs, and Renée Zellweger.
Irresistibly sumptuous–and juicy–Oscar Night is a book full of elegance and egos, of glamorous pictures that you will want to look at again and again.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 7-Oct-2008, 14000424889781400042487, 220-450-910-770-770-800-940-881-S2B-8 
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