{"title":"Books by Nat Segaloff","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780806541945","title":"The Exorcist Legacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eForeword by John Russo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpdated and Expanded with a New Coda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative, fascinating, and compulsively readable account of one of the most shocking, influential, and successful films of all time, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e, with a new coda on \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist: Believer\u003c\/i\u003e and the upcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist: Deceiver\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn December 26, 1973, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e was released. Within days it had become legend. Moviegoers braved hours-long lines in winter weather to see it. Some audience members famously fainted or vomited. 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Scarface did it twice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Brian DePalma’s operatically violent and profane \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e debuted in 1983, the film drew almost as much fire as the relentless gunfire in the film itself. Starring Al Pacino as Cuban refugee-turned-crime-boss Tony Montana, Steven Bauer as his best friend Manny, and rising star Michelle Pfeiffer as an Eighties gangster’s moll, the movie was a remake of 1932’s \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e—revamped for a new era of drugs, sex, and graphic violence. Attacked as both a celebration of cocaine-fueled excess and a condemnation of it, the film’s reputation only grew as the years went by. But the real story of its success started nearly a century ago—when Hollywood first fell in love with the American gangster . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHollywood’s infatuation with money, power, and organized crime has captured the public’s imagination and made \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e one of its most enduring modern myths. From a 1912 gangster film by D.W. Griffith to the 1932 hit \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e starring Paul Muni, to Brian DePalma’s 1983 shocker, the antihero’s rise and fall exposes the dark side of the American Dream—whether it’s Prohibition Era bootleggers or modern-day drug dealers. 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The Rambo machine has been as unstoppable as Rambo himself. Now for the first time, Hollywood insider Nat Segaloff digs deep into the man, the myth, and the massive impact of the phenomenon known as “The Rambo Effect.” Packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cultural insights, and ongoing debates about violence in the media, this is an explosive, no-holds-barred report from the front lines of Hollywood mythmaking. 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