商品簡介
Before Alexander Payne arrived as a world-renowned filmmaker, Leo Adam Biga spotted his talent. Interviewing-profiling Payne became a highlight of the writer's work. Feeling a rapport and trust with Biga, Payne granted exclusive access to his creative process, including a week-long visit to one of his sets.Biga has compiled his years of reporting into this book giving the first comprehensive look anywhere at one of cinema's most important figures. Go behind-the-scenes with the author to glimpse privileged aspects of the filmmaker at work and in private moments.
作者簡介
Leo Adam Biga is a freelance cultural journalist and nonfiction book author based in his hometown of Omaha, Neb. His feature and enterprise work as an arts and culture reporter appears in several Omaha and greater Nebraska publications. His articles occasionally appear in national magazines as well.Assignments often find him interviewing celebrities and public figures from various fields. Every so often Biga travels to get a story. He accompanied a group of Nebraskans who bused to the Barack Obama presidential inauguration in the nation's capital. He spent several days and nights covering Lew Hunter's screenwriting colony in Superior, Neb. He spent a week on the set of Alexander Payne's film "Sideways" in the Santa Barbara, Calif., area. He made an eight-day Midwest baseball tour of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. His work has been recognized by his peers at the local, state, and national levels.
