High Concept - Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess

Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, High Concept is an insight of Hollywood in the 1980's and 90's. For over two decades Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet at the same time with his partner Jerry Bruckheimer, they became the most successful independent producers.Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, this work takes the reader on a journey inside Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. The author traces the rise of Hollywood's key players in a tale of decadence and greed, hypocrisy and hysteria, profligacy and moral emptiness.