THE MAILROOM: A History of Hollywood, from the Bottom Up (Ballantine, 2003) Film: HBO

IT'S ALL LIES, & THAT'S THE TRUTH: And 49 More Rules From 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living in Hollywood (Gotham, 2004) by Bernie Brillstein with David Rensin

David Rensin is one of the most successful collaborators working in the business today, having written bestselling books with Tim Allen, Jeff Foxworthy, Chris Rock, Garry Shandling, Yanni and legendary Hollywood manager Bernie Brillstein. His book THE MAILROOM, an oral history/sociology of what it's like to start at the bottom in a talent agency mailroom, is required reading in boardrooms and cubicles throughout Hollywood.

Rensin's newest book is ALL FOR A FEW PERFECT WAVES - an impeccably researched and reported oral and narrative biography of one of surfing's most mysterious and seminal figures. Dora was known as "Da Cat" for his feline grace on the waves; but his legend also grew because of the mysteries that caused him to leave the country for several years, with the FBI in pursuit. This story embodies not only one man's enigmatic life, but that all tracks the rise of celebrity culture and the growth of both a sport and post-WWII California itself. "Until now enigmatic surfer legend Miki Dora's history was written only in water, but David Rensin's primo All for a Few Perfect Waves catches the life of this charismatic renegade." Vanity Fair

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