Author(s): Dennis McDougal

Entertainment

Praise for "Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times": 'Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, and nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey' - Patrick McGilligan, author of "Jack's Life" and "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light". Praise for "Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty": 'A great freeway pileup - part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip' - Hendrick Hertzberg, "The New Yorker".'McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings' - "The Washington Post". Praise for "The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood": 'Real glamour needs a dark side.