Tell the Story: A Hollywood Odyssey
Tell the Story: A Hollywood Odyssey
Tell the Story: A Hollywood Odyssey
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"Tannen's life story begins to feel like a thriller." -New York Times bestselling author Duane Swierczynski, author of California Bear
"A touching and humorous true-life account..." -Phillip Noyce, director of Rabbit Proof Fence and Clear and Present Danger
"Everyone who loves the movies will love this book." -Ken Wells, author of Swamped and Meely LaBauve
As a highly paid screenwriter, Terrell Tannen lived the classic Hollywood lifestyle: the Porsche, oversized house, dinners, and parties. By most measures, he could be called wildly successful. Yet . . . script after script, written for the bona fide elites of the movie business, floundered for all the usual and unusual Hollywood reasons.
Tell the Story: A Hollywood Odyssey offers a window into what it feels like to constantly flirt with fame. At times resembling a darkly comic film, it's a very American tale, illustrative of the driving forces of hope and ambition in a place-Hollywood-where these desires burn like an inextinguishable neon sign, imploring and taunting at the same time. It also reminds us that, for all our dreams and ambitions, life has a way of writing its own script.
Tell the Story is the story behind the story on screen, how it happens-and more often does not. A story for cinephiles, film enthusiasts, aspiring artists, romantics, wishers, dreamers . . . and all of us who just love an original tale.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Refreshingly honest and hugely entertaining. Tannen's life story begins to feel like a thriller." -New York Times bestselling author Duane Swierczynski, author of California Bear
"Funny, frustrating, endearing and inspirational. A terrific read." -Rosie Shuster, original writer and co-creator of Saturday Night Live
"Tannen has crafted a work from the heart that serves as an enlightening journey through the latter of half of 20th-century Hollywood. A smooth-reading Tinseltown chronicle sure to satisfy both cinephiles and fans of introspective memoirs. -Kirkus Reviews
"A touching and humorous true-life account of a storyteller's journey from a Georgia farm to a Hollywood mansion. Tannen's incidental journey is a clear and candid look at the joy, heartbreak, success, and failure that awaits all of us who arrive with ideas, desire, and a dream." -Phillip Noyce, director of Rabbit Proof Fence and Clear and Present Danger
"A challenging account of one man trying to make a living in what seems to an outsider like a toxic and shallow world of inflated importance and radical uncertainty, driven by money, illusion, ego, and image. One comes away admiring the author's stamina, tenacity, and talent." -Judson Mitcham, author of The Sweet Everlasting, Georgia Poet Laureate 2012-2019
"Terrell Tannen's romp through 80s and 90s Hollywood is as fun and eye-opening as it is cautionary. Tannen tells his story with wit and self-deprecating humor as he takes readers deep inside the star-making machinery as only a Hollywood insider can. Everyone who loves the movies will love this book." -Ken Wells, author of Swamped and Meely LaBauve
"From the frustrations and loneliness of youth to the nuts and bolts of working in Hollywood and the beguiling, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking trappings of near-fame . . . Tannen talks about the 'almosts' of Hollywood, but there's nothing 'almost' about this book-it's a full-on, full-tilt stunner." -Joe Schreiber, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Dead, Star Wars: Death Troopers, and Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
"A personal, yet universal tale about ambition. Tannen reminds us how tantalizing, yet elusive dreams can become when we have nearly made them a reality." -Roger Birnbaum, Co-CEO of MGM studios, owner, Spyglass Entertainment
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