New Book Sizzles with Dirt-Dishing Accounts of Roman Polanski and Robert Evans
In Phillip Lambro's book, Close Encounters of the Worst Kind, Lambro recalls how, in the editing room at Paramount, Polanski answered sex-for-sale ads from "Sally in the Valley" under the name of Paul.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 7, 2009 -- When successful classical music composer and conductor, Phillip Lambro (the United States International Orchestra, Crystal S-861), was hired by film director Roman Polanski in 1974 to compose the film score to Chinatown, Lambro found himself thrown into one of the biggest power struggles in classic celluloid history between film director Roman Polanski and producer Robert Evans.
Lambro's latest book, Close Encounters of the Worst Kind (Lulu Press), depicts the raw antics of not only Polanski and Evans but some of Hollywood's biggest directors of the 70's with the kind of sharp sarcasm and brutal realism that we haven't seen since producer Julia Phillips' autobiography, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.
Lambro offers titillating Hollywood insider dirt between Polanski ("a contradiction and distortion like his life") and the power hungry Evans (who claimed responsibility for The Godfather's success because he specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film so the audience could, "smell the spaghetti") as they battled over control of producing Chinatown.
Lambro says of Polanski, "When I witnessed his getting caught up in adversity after misfortune, we must deduce that his judgment was amiss." Lambro recalls how, in the editing room at Paramount, Polanski answered sex-for-sale ads from "Sally in the Valley" under the name of Paul.
Lambro's warnings to studio execs about Polanski's bad habit went unnoticed and when Polanski was arrested in that same year for having sex with a minor. Lambro said, "it was ironic that Polanski, who had made a picture out of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, had neglected Hardy's explanatory note from St. Jerome's proverb: "If an offense comes out of truth, better is it that the offense come than that truth be concealed."
"Polanski," had neglected to discover Hardy's sincerity of purpose," Lambro added.
Lambro's book reports that during the making of Chinatown, Polanski and Evans relentlessly struggled for supremacy while Polanski criticized Towne's writing and he insistently re-cut the film. Eventually Lambro's soundtrack to Chinatown was pulled by Evans (since Polanski had hired Lambro); the movie preview was a disaster, at the time the film did not make money, and Evans eventually lost his job as Head of Production, claiming that his tenure lasted longer than all of his marriages combined.
Lambro noted that, "Evans' ex-wives are infinitely more intelligent than the Board of Directors at Paramount."
Robert Evans went on a subsequent retrograding path with one motion picture disaster after another where, along the way he was convicted of cocaine possession, and was investigated for murder in relationship to his desperate attempt to meet added production financing and repayments on the cinematic debacle Cotton Club.
Ironically, Lambro recalls when Francis Ford Coppola once told him, "there wasn't enough money for me to ever work with that guy (Evans) again." But in 1984, Coppola accepted Evans' offer to direct Cotton Club because Coppola needed the money - he was deeply in debt from making One From the Heart with his own money.
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind is an irreverent tale about revenge and back-stabbing by our favorite Hollywood players who prey on themselves.
About Phillip Lambro
After winning a place for himself as one of the most talented young native classical composers, Phillip Lambro was barely 24 when the late Leopold Stokowski conducted Lambro's music MIAFLORES for string orchestra and William Smith, Associate Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra (another early Lambro mentor), performed both Lambro's DANCE BARBARO for Percussion and MIRAFLORES for String Orchestra with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
To purchase the book and for more information about Phillip Lambro's career, visit: http://www.wimbtri.com/lambro/
Order the book at Barnes and Noble online, Amazon Click here to go directly to amazon.com; lulu.com (http://www.lulu.com/content/515542).
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