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Nicole Laporte In Conversation With Richard Crouse at Gladstone Hotel

Toronto Event Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 – Wed, May 19, 2010

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Nicole Laporte In Conversation With Richard Crouse

NICOLE LAPORTE IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD CROUSE
What happened when three of the most powerful men in Hollywood — director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg — decided to build their own empire? Are Dreamworks’ business practices really as cutthroat as the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan? To launch her much ballyhooed expose, The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks (Thomas Allen Publishers), investigative reporter Nicole LaPorte will separate fact from tabloid fiction with celebrated film critic Richard Crouse. You’ll never watch a Dreamworks movie the same way again. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS), will host the evening.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tues May 18; 7:30pm (Doors 7pm) $5 (Free With Book Purchase)

THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KING For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King—an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte,who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened.

Readers will feel they are part of the creative calamities of moviemaking as LaPorte’s fly-on-the-wall detail shows us Hollywood’s bizarre rules of business. We see the clashes between the often otherworldly Spielberg’s troops and Katzenberg’s warriors, the debacles and disasters, but also the Oscar-winning triumphs, including Saving Private Ryan. We watch as the studio burns through billions, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers. We see Geffen seducing investors like Microsoft’s Paul Allen, showing his steel against CAA’s Michael Ovitz, and staging fireworks during negotiations with Paramount and Disney. Here is Hollywood, up close, glamorous, and gritty.

NICOLE LAPORTE is a former film reporter for Variety, where she covered the Hollywood movie industry for several years. She also wrote the “Rules of Hollywood” column for the Los Angeles Times Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and W magazine. For The Men Who Would Be King she did more than 200 interviews with subjects at every level of the entertainment business.

RICHARD CROUSE is the host of the show, Richard Crouse’s Movie Show on the E! Channel and has a regular movie review segment on CTV’s Canada AM. Crouse often appears on CBC radio as a musical trivia expert. He has written several books on the music and movie industries, such as the bestseller Son Of The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen.

This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS) is produced by The Force For Cultural Event Productions (FORCE), with the generous support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council For The Arts.
Visit: www.pagesbooks.ca, and, www.tinars.ca

Media / Info Contacts:
Nicola LaPorte: Jenna Illies, jenna.illies@t-allen.com, (416) 361-0233 ext 5
TINARS: Chris Reed, coordinator@tinars.ca, (416) 598-1447



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