JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone, and me : an idealist's journey from Capitol Hill to Hollywood hell

Jfk, Nixon, Oliver Stone And Me Is The Funny, Thoughtful Memoir Of An Accomplished Former Congressional Staffer Who Left D.c. For L.a. And A Job With Oliver Stone, Hoping To Help Make Politically Engaged Films And A Difference, And Found Himself Instead In A Wildly Dysfunctional Universe Ruled By Greed, Paranoia, Narcissism, Competition, Alcohol And Drugs. His Account Of His Journey From The Hill To Hollywood Treats Readers To A Rollicking Tour Of The Theater Of Politics And The Politics Of Theater, And A Thought-provoking Meditation On The Movies, Media, Politics, And The Strange Grey Area In Which They Intertwine.--jacket. In The Beginning -- In The Senate -- Jfk 101 -- Why It Matters -- Back To Congress -- A Film Called Jfk -- The Jfk Bill -- Going To Hollywood -- Journey To Ixtlan -- Development Hell -- Becoming A Hollywood Producer -- Steve, Chris And The Beast -- Larry Flynt, Maureen Dowd And Other Projects -- The Bay Of Pigs Thing -- Research In Cuba -- The First Draft -- A Big Deal -- Lawyers And Natural Born Killers -- The Nixon Team, Starring Danny The Weasel -- The Return Of Sammy Glick -- Finding Nixon -- Lost In The O Zone -- The Martin Luther King Project And Jfk, Part 2 -- Researching Nixon -- Goodbye Azita, Hello Annie -- Shooting The Movie -- Problems With Mlk -- Oliver Becomes Nixon -- Visiting The Set -- Strange Episodes -- Mlk, Nfl, Nixon, Annie And Danny -- Mlk And Nfl Revisited -- Notes On Nixon -- On The Cover Of Newsweek -- The Press Junket -- Nixon Bombs -- The Beginning Of The End -- Life After Nixon -- Another Fiasco--oliver's U-turn -- The End Of Ixtlan -- Good News And Bad News -- Life After Oliver -- Fast Forward--june 1999 -- The Oliver Zone -- John Dean And The Pentagon Papers -- Strange Encounters With Oliver -- Final Cut--the Premiere -- Postscript--the Bay Of Pigs Thing Revisited. Eric Hamburg. Includes Index. 'JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me is the funny, thoughtful memoir of an accomplished former Congressional staffer who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, hoping to help make politically' The author describes his experiences working for Oliver Stone on such films as "Nixon" and "Any Given Sunday" and the workings of the motion picture industry.