Michael Schulman recounts Hollywood history from the arrival of talking pictures to the La La Land / Moonlight mishap of 2017. We learn that Orson Welles broke the news of Pearl Harbor on live radio and that Stanley Kubrick was so obsessed with Napoleon he started eating like him. Schulman gives us the scoop on the lifelong feud between sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland and the 1999 battle between Harvey Weinstein and Steven Spielberg for Oscar glory. Impeccably sourced and packed with anecdotes, this book is essential reading for film lovers.