Other Works
He has written several best-selling books, including Hollywood Animal, an autobiography about politics in Hollywood, which superimposes his life as a young immigrant in America on his life as a powerful Hollywood player. A third book, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, was published in September 2006.
His book Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith was published in 2008. It tells the story of his return to the Roman Catholic Church and his newfound devotion to God and family after surviving a throat cancer diagnosed in 2001.
Esterhas wrote a book about his experiences with Mel Gibson and anti-Semitism, entitled Heaven and Mel, wherein he paints a terrifying picture of Gibson as a man fueled only by hatred, prone to violent outbursts. Among many damning statements is Eszterhas's claim that while staying with Gibson at Gibson's Costa Rican estate to work on a script, he became so afraid of Gibson that he resorted to sleeping with a golf club in hand.
Read more about this topic: Joe Eszterhas
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“The hippopotamus’s day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a mysterious way—
The Church can sleep and feed at once.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“And when discipline is concerned, the parent who has to make it to the end of an eighteen-hour day—who works at a job and then takes on a second shift with the kids every night—is much more likely to adopt the survivor’s motto: “If it works, I’ll use it.” From this perspective, dads who are even slightly less involved and emphasize firm limits or character- building might as well be talking a foreign language. They just don’t get it.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)