Feeling like a skinny wimp brushing sand off your face? Instead of Charles
Atlas reach for a copy of "Hit and Run". This brillantly written account of
Peter Guber and Jon Peters assent in Hollywood culiminating with their
co-chairmenship of Sony Pictures is a true how-to for anyone short on
personal chutzpah. Details of Guber and Peters personal interaction skills
in- cluding verbal assaults and tantrums on desktops will get even the
meekest reader's blood pumping and send them off in search of their own
victim. As a business professional I found Griffin and Masters' book
chronicling the pathetic waste and destruction left behind by this duo to
be one of the best business books I've read in a long time. And I found the
depiction of their in-your-face management style to be a refreshing respite
from mild-mannered Dilbert. In addition to a primer on the Sony company and
the highly competitive consumer electronics industry the book is chock full
of juicy tidbits on the 'stars'. (Check out Jack Nicholson's advice to Kim
Basinger on the set of 'Batman' concerning her 'performance' with Jon
Peters.) Possessing extreme self-confidence, tenacity, and greed, Jon
Peters and Peter Guber exemplify the best and worst of achieving the
American Dream in "Hit and Run."
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