{"product_id":"2940046354423","title":"Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Book Exposes Inner Workings, Wild Behavior of Hollywood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat really goes on behind the veil of celebrity? Rocky Lang, who grew up in the 90210 as the son of mega-producer and screen disaster master Jennings Lang (Earthquake, the Airport movies and 35 other features), dishes all in his new book, Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul. Raised around the likes of Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Walter Matthau and Billy Wilder, Lang serves up—in self-deprecating style—a genuine insider’s collection of bizarre, sometimes ribald, often hilarious and always surprising true tales from the rarefied world of Hollywood, such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinding himself a pawn in the brutal creative war between Dustin Hoffman and director Sydney Pollack during the making of the classic comedy Tootsie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpying on Olivia Newton-John being photographed nude in his family’s backyard pool, and the “breast-beating” he endured after getting caught in the act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovering the scandal-sheet affair between his dad and screen siren Joan Bennett—along with the truth behind his father getting shot in the crotch by Bennett’s husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving Steven Spielberg as an “older brother” before and after the famous filmmaker’s meteoric rise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing told by his dad that writer Gore Vidal offered to buy young Rocky for $1 million.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearning his mother had slept with Ronald Reagan, plus the outrageous nickname the future U.S. president had.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocky Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161465995504,"sku":"2940046354423","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046354423_p0.jpg?v=1763690607","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046354423","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}