Golf in Hollywood: Where the Stars Come Out to Play - Hardcover

Chew, Robert Z; Pavoni, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883318084 ISBN 13: 9781883318086

Publisher: Angel City Press, 1998

Synopsis

"Golf in Hollywood" is an entertaining romp on the fairways of the world's favorite town. Filled with more than one hundred photographs, "Golf in Hollywood" shares the pleasures of the game, along with candid shots of some of filmland's biggest names as they take their turns at the tee. From the archives of Hollywood's most exclusive courses. You will read about Howard Hughes landing his plane on the links at Bel-Air Country Club so he would't miss a date with Kate Hepburn. About Clark Gable's hole-in-one and Jean Harlow playing Riviera. Bing Crosby lining up a shot. Learn how Mysterious Montague became the star's star on the country-club circuit during Hollywood's Golden Era and how he had a huge impact on Kevin Costner's hit movie "Tin Cup." See Jack Nicholson at the Los Angeles Police Department's Celebrity Charity Golf Tournament. Watch Will Smith take some practice swings. Get the inside story on Bill Murray, George Clooney and Sylvester Stallone and their games, told as only Hollywood golf insiders authors Robert Z. Chew and David Pavoni can. "Golf in Hollywood" is a resounding tribute to the game of golf, and to the celebrated stars who play it.

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Review

It seems only par for the course that Bing Crosby, who spent more of his celebrated life on the golf course than in the recording studio or the soundstage, would die on the golf course, too, thus setting a standard for the golfing jones that a significant pocket of Hollywood seems eager to match. Golf is as much a filmland obsession as limousines, hair, and make-up. Bob Hope and Humphrey Bogart were hearty hackers; so was Katharine Hepburn, Dean Martin, Oliver Hardy, Johnny Weismuller, Dinah Shore, and Rita Hayworth; and the tradition continues with Bill Murray, Clint Eastwood, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Nicholson, and finally, Jack Wagner, who is still the best Hollywood hacker of them all. Their adventures on the links, superbly illustrated with archival photos, are as breezy as a morning walk down the fairways of Riviera, one of Hollywood's favorite golfing outposts. Golf in Hollywood may be starry-eyed, but it's not just star-struck; it takes interesting swings at the way the game's been treated on film, and also offers a series of colorful and historical profiles of the courses and country clubs favored by the film and TV community, past and present. Most fun of all, Golf in Hollywood not only names names, it dares to reveal handicaps. --Jeff Silverman

Edition details

• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1883318084
• ISBN 13: 9781883318086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144