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Peter Biskind

Arts Movies & TV

The Rude Warrior

Five years ago, Mel Gibson was one of Hollywood’s few genuine family-men and a leading box office attraction; inside his wild descent from star to pariah.

Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Mar 2011 30min Permalink

Arts Business Movies & TV

The Weinstein Way

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2004 50min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Madness in Morocco

How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles. (An excerpt from Peter Biskind’s Star.)

Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2010 35min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Vietnam Oscars

The 1979 Oscars pitted Hal Ashby’s Coming Home against Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, wildly different films both on the topic of the Vietnam War.

Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Mar 2008 40min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Runaway Genius

The struggle behind the making of Terence Malick’s first movie in twenty years and the two producers who, depending on your source, either made it possible or nearly ruined it.

Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Aug 1999 20min Permalink