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Hooked on Hollywood : Discoveries From a Lifetime of Film Fandom by Leonard Maltin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hooked on Hollywood : Discoveries From a Lifetime of Film Fandom about?
Leonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through his website www.leonardmaltin.com, and a social media presence that includes an active Facebook page and a Twitter feed with more than 66,000 followers. In Hooked on Hollywood , Maltin opens up his personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history. He first interviewed greats of Hollywood as a precocious teenager in 1960s New York City. He used what he learned from these luminaries to embark on a 50-year (and counting) career that has included New York Times bestselling books, 30 years of regular appearances coast-to-coast on Entertainment Tonight, movie introductions on Turner Classic Movies, and countless other television and radio performances. Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books brought them to light for the first time in this volume to entertain readers and inform future film scholars. Teenaged Leonard Maltin landed one-on-ones with Warner Bros. sexy pre-Code siren Joan Blondell;
Who reads Hooked on Hollywood : Discoveries From a Lifetime of Film Fandom?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Leonard Maltin
- Publisher
- GoodKnight Books
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781732273504
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (136 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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