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Ain't It Cool?: Kicking Hollywood's Butt

by Harry Knowles, Paul Cullum, Mark Ebner · 2002

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This is the story of how Harry Knowles, a college dropout weaned on films and bedridden by an accident, started the Web site from his bedroom in Austin, Texas. In just four years he has crashed the insider world of Hollywood to become one of the most powerful and feared men in show business.

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medium · 318 pages

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