New Book Exposes Inner Workings, Wild Behavior of HollywoodWhat really goes on behind the veil of celebrity? Rocky Lang, who grew up in the 90210 as the son of mega-producer and screen disaster master Jennings Lang (Earthquake, the Airport movies and 35 other features), dishes all in his new book, Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul. Raised around the likes of Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Walter Matthau and Billy Wilder, Lang serves up—in self-deprecating style—a genuine insider's collection of bizarre, sometimes ribald, often hilarious and always surprising true tales from the rarefied world of Hollywood, such as:Finding himself a pawn in the brutal creative war between Dustin Hoffman and director Sydney Pollack during the making of the classic comedy Tootsie.Spying on Olivia Newton-John being photographed nude in his family's backyard pool, and the "e;breast-beating"e; he endured after getting caught in the act.Discovering the scandal-sheet affair between his dad and screen siren Joan Bennett—along with the truth behind his father getting shot in the crotch by Bennett's husband.Having Steven Spielberg as an "e;older brother"e; before and after the famous filmmaker's meteoric rise.Being told by his dad that writer Gore Vidal offered to buy young Rocky for $1 million.Learning his mother had slept with Ronald Reagan, plus the outrageous nickname the future U.S. president had.
