When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging
Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a
simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the
iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled
Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in
controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless,
take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous
Hollywood dream factory began.
First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in
Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's
post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud . . . until
his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically
and poignantly would end.