A few good tidbits here, but way too much extranneous gushing. And where were the proofreaders and copy editors? Here's one small example of an unfortunate mistake, on page 8: "...Mankiewicz had just started All About Eve, a film that, while technically about Hollywood rather than Broadway, in fact amounted to exploratory surgery on the dysphoric underbelly of show business." Of course he meant to say, "while technically about Broadway rather than Hollywood...." It's just one of dozens of examples of extreme sloppiness that casts doubt on the whole enterprise. Too bad, too -- this could have been a really great must-have book for all movie fans. Instead, it's really a wasted opportunity.