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050 00 $aPN1997.A2123$bQ44 1995
082 00 $a791.43/72$220
100 1 $aQueenan, Joe.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92065402
245 14 $aThe unkindest cut :$bhow a hatchet-man critic made his own $7,000 movie and put it all on his credit card /$cJoe Queenan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHyperion,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $avii, 310 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aIn February 1993, mean-spirited movie critic Joe Queenan read a newspaper article that would change the course of his life. The article described a movie called El Mariachi which supposedly had been made for a paltry $7,000. Armed with the information that someone could make a movie for a paltry $7,000, Queenan now set out to prove that anyone could make a movie for a paltry $7,000.
520 8 $aTwo years later, on a bitterly cold February evening, Queenan's film, Twelve Steps to Death, would win first prize at the First Tarrytown International Film Festival, nabbing the coveted Golden Headless Horseman Award. But before Queenan would have his night of triumph, there would be many financial, physical, and emotional disasters. A knife stabbing on the set of the film. Massive cost overruns. Sabotaged equipment. The tearful resignation of his seven-year-old son from the cast. A ruined marriage.
520 8 $aAnd the consternation of his oldest, wisest, and closest friends, who questioned the wisdom of making a $7,000 film about a sociopathic Los Angeles cop whose wife and children had been killed two years earlier by a schizoid anorexic recovering alcoholic with Attention Deficit Disorder who was fleeing an abusive, chocaholic husband who used to beat her up whenever he had one too many of the nougat caramels.
520 8 $aYet in the end, Queenan did what he set out to do, producing a film that is without question "the most expensive $7,000 film in history."
630 00 $a12 steps to death.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95060471
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xProduction and direction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088104
650 0 $aMotion picture authorship.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088030
650 0 $aLow budget films.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002637
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN1997.A2123$iQ44 1995