Book review – “Levinson on Levinson”

Entertaining albeit brief overlook at Levinson’s career in his own words. He had an interesting background, Levinson, working his way up through the TV industry, then doing comedy, becoming a comedy writer for TV then Mel Brooks, then a “serious writer, then director. The book goes up until the making of Toys – it would be interesting to read an updated version, which takes in the 90s and noughties, where Levinson has not enjoyed the commercial success that he did in the 80s. (NB Although as Levinson pointed out, neither Good Morning Vietnam or Rain Man were obviously commercial projects – and he’s made some great films since then, like Wag the Dog.)