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Zusatztext “When Robert Schnakenberg's Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers arrived in my mailbox! I braced myself for 288 pages of future dinner-party tidbits. To my delight! it delivered.”— USA Today! Popcandy Informationen zum Autor Robert Schnakenberg is the author of several nonfiction books! including Secret Lives of Great Authors . He lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext Strange-But-True Tales of Cross-Dressers! Drug Addicts! Foot Fetishists! and Other Legendary Filmmakers. With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from D. W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino! Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers reveals the little-known secrets of all your favorite directors. Why did Charlie Chaplin refuse to bathe for weeks at a time? Was Alfred Hitchcock really missing a belly button? Is Walt Disney's corpse preserved in a state of suspended animation? And why on earth did Francis Ford Coppola direct a 3-D pornographic movie? The legends of the silver screen will never be the same! Zusammenfassung Offers a look at screen legends ranging from D W Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to Martin Scorcese and the Coen Brothers. This book helps to discover that Alfred Hitchcock lost his belly button during abdominal surgery; he loved to shock his leading ladies by pulling up his shirt and revealing his curiously smooth belly.
