Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops

A Hollywood insider answers, once and for all, the eternal question: “How in the world did that picture ever get made?” One thing we movie lovers enjoy almost as much as fireworks on the silver screen is watching a movie go up in flames.  And while each season brings its fresh batch of stinkers, it takes years and a rare confluence of forces to give birth to an “Iconic Flop” like Showgirls. While movies such as Gigli are just plain dumb, a bunker-buster like Battlefield Earth can be absolutely dumbfounding in its big-budget awfulness.  In Fiasco, longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian James Robert Parish goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of fifteen of the most spectacular megaflops of the past fifty years. No mere financial disappointments these, each of the artistic and financial failures covered was of a magnitude to bankrupt studios, demolish reputations, and, in some cases, totally reconfigure the Hollywood power structure. With verve and no small mea