AIN'T IT COOL?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out
Harry Knowles, with Paul Cullum and Mark Ebner, foreword by Quentin Tarantino. . Warner, $23.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-446-52597-8
The creator of the studio-scooping Web site aintitcoolnews.com delivers a rollicking memoir, a passionate analysis of film industry flaws and an infectious appreciation of "the last bastion of true democracy in America"—movies. The child of an alcoholic Texas heiress and a Young-Republican-turned-hippie, Knowles split his childhood between the family compound of his mother's violent relatives and trips to Mexico and Central America, where he and his father would collect native art to resell. After an accident left him bedridden, Knowles launched his Web site, a "Geek Forum" that follows movies from script development to release. His muckraking approach rattles studios, which became clear when Sony served Knowles with a restraining order in 1997 for posting a scoop about the computer animation in
Reviewed on: 02/18/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 336 pages - 978-0-446-67991-6