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Author Kim Masters (“Hit & Run,” the forthcoming “The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everyone Else”) reveals her TOP five industry tell-all books.

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1. “Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street,” by David McClintick. “The first book that really took a look at business in the entertainment industry.”

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2. “Final Cut: Dreams & Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate,” by Steven Bach. “It’s a phenomenally exasperating story. Michael Cimino, the director, behaved atrociously. As a reader, you want to get a gun.”

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3. “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,” by Peter Biskind. “It covers the rise of a group of extremely influential filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.”

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4. “Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business,” by Frederic Dannen. “The entertainment industry works very closely with the music industry. The music business has been a real morass, with a lot of alleged mob connections, and it’s been hard to get in print. Frederic Dannen was able to do this.”

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5. “You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again,” by Julia Phillips. “An ugly book by a clever, unpleasant person. But it reveals from the filmmaking side the constant credit grabbing and squabbling narcissism of this business.”

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