TY - BOOK AU - McClintick,David TI - Indecent exposure : a true story of hollywood and wall street: a true story of hollywood and wall street SN - 068801349X U1 - 364.162 M127I 1982 PY - 1982/// CY - New York : PB - William Morrow & Co KW - Embezzlement -- New York (State) -- New York KW - Begelman, David KW - Columbia Pictures Industries N2 - When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud . . . until his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically and poignantly would end ER -