Fiasco (2006), James Robert Parish.

Not a bad concept - Parish takes 15 Hollywood flops and examines them chronologically from the breakup of the studio system to the present. I have to say I would have preferred more in-depth examinations of fewer fiascos. I was turned off by the lazy writing and at one point even wondered if Parish was using a thesaurus to find suitable words that were synonymous with "flop". Sweeping generalizations - such as the one made in a single sentence in which Parish claims that "the recent Gulf War" was the motivation behind a mid-90s trend towards less onscreen violence - made it hard to take him too seriously. According to Parish, every fiasco just about blacklists every actor involved- but I couldn't buy that either -- isn't that just the way Hollywood works? You make a stinker, you dust yourself off and get back on that horse?  (Well, maybe not if you are Elizabeth Berkley...) Final complaint: if you are going to use Hudson Hawk as a baseline against which all disasters are compared - write about Hudson Hawk, dammit!