From the author of Who Killed Sal Mineo?: a wonderful and spirited novel—funny and candid and on the mark—that takes us inside the frenetic and glamorous world of big-time Hollywood movie-making. Susan Braudy, who was a production vice-president for one of the major studios, now reveals how a few cunning executives control the secret million-dollar, life-and-death decisions—and decide who can make movies and how much they will cost.