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'Award-winning film-maker Bruce Beresford takes us through the highs and lows of the screen trade - from high-powered dinner tables to obscure backlots, from the centres of power to far-flung locations - with a cast of characters that includes Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Jeffrey Archer, Steven Seagal, and many others. Delightfully literate and sharply observed, this is a highly entertaining insider's account of a rarely glimpsed world. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

Diary entries begin on 24 October 2003 and conclude with 11 July 2005.
Epigraphs:
There is no art without fanaticism... - Flaubert
The first duty in life is to assume a pose - what the second duty is no one has yet found out. - Oscar Wilde
Dedication: To Joshua and Leander

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Untitled Tom Ryan , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , no. 46 2008;
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 August 2008; (p. 27)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary ; The Empty Page : Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth 2008 anthology short story

Down Showbiz Lane : A Uniquely Aussie View of Tinseltown John Wright , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Limelight , October 2007; (p. 68)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

The Fanatical Bruce Beresford : Celluloid Heroes Peter Coleman , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 51 no. 11 2007; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

Untitled Stan James , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 September 2007; (p. 12)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

Cheerful Optimism as a Million Plans Founder Garry Maddox , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 August 2007; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

From Behind the Camera to Centre Stage Ron Cerabona , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 August 2007; (p. 18)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary

No Jude Law, No Money Peter Craven , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 294 2007; (p. 21-22)
— Review of Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This ... : True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Bruce Beresford , 2007 selected work diary