Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan
The number of times I had to pick my jaw up off the floor while reading this…too many to count. Maureen Ryan is now one of my favorite authors. She did not hold back at all, and I loved the snark and straight up reads she dished out in Burn It Down without it ever feeling salacious or slanderous. She has clearly worked a very long time in the industry and this book was her way of exposing the BS she has seen and experienced. While most […]
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
CBR Bingo Square: Politics I read Maureen Ryan’s piece in Variety about the hellish writers room of Lost back in the spring, an excerpt lifted from this book as advance publicity, and it did the job of making me very curious about what else she had to say about power politics in Hollywood, particularly as it pertains to people who are not in front of the camera. Ryan does also have plenty to say about how actors are treated (see her discussion of Sleepy Hollow and all that went […]
