The Real Hollywood Babylon ; He Slept with Sharon Stone and Seduced Martin Scorsese's Wife On the Kitchen Floor.Now,in a Sizzling Newbook,Basic Instinct Writer Joe Eszterhas Reveals Tinseltown's Most Scurrilous Secrets

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EVERYONE in Hollywood knows the old joke about the Polish actress who was so dumb that she slept with the screenwriter, thinking it would benefit her career. It's a screenwriters' joke, of course, bemoaning the fact that while stars and directors are rich and powerful people, as well as often being much-loved household names, few people know or care who writes a movie.

Naturally screenwriters have always thought this unfair, for without the script there's nothing for the actors to act, nothing for the directors to direct.

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The Real Hollywood Babylon ; He Slept with Sharon Stone and Seduced Martin Scorsese's Wife On the Kitchen Floor.Now,in a Sizzling Newbook,Basic Instinct Writer Joe Eszterhas Reveals Tinseltown's Most Scurrilous Secrets

But, unable to change things, they've taken their wages, stayed discreet, missed out on the girls and privately whinged and gossiped to each other.

That was more or less how it always was until along came Joe Eszterhas, the writer of Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Jagged Edge. And Eszterhas is about as discreet as a 100-bomber air raid. For 30 years, during which he's had 15 movies made, he's just loved to revel in bitching about the film industry.

And now, to wickedly coincide with the kissing and genuflecting which

inevitably accompanies the Oscar and Bafta award...

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