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Ready When You are, Mr.Coppola, Mr.Spielberg, Mr.Crowe: 69
Author(s): Jerry Ziesmer (Author), Tony Slide
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: 14 Dec. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 0810836572
- ISBN-13: 9780810836570
Book Description
Once a year, the world gathers around their television sets and views that glorious tribute the film industy pays to itself. By the end of Oscar night, a handful of emotional writers and directors and stars have blinked back tears as they stared into the spotlight and thanked God, their parents, and even their make-up artist. Few ever think to acknowledge the individual who gasses up the engine of movie-making, partially because the job by nature is invisible. Even the job title is suspiciously low-key. But 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 movie screens, no Oscar winners, no finished films, good or bad, without the Assistant Director.
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I’m the author of “Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola…”
I want to thank Amazon.co.uk for giving me the opportunity to comment on my book “Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe”. The Introduction is by Cameron Crowe.
I want to thank Amazon.co.uk for giving me the opportunity to comment on my book “Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe”. The Introduction is by Cameron Crowe.
I was their assistant director. My book tells the stories both from the years I spent working on the sets of “Apocalypse Now”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “Jerry Maguire”, “Scarface”…and many more. I tell of my experiences in making some of the greatest films of our age with many of the most gifted filmmakers of our time.
I hope it’s a book for the film professional, the student, or just those who love film.
Thank you.
Jerry Ziesmer e-mail: ac563@lafn.org)
