Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood

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"Hawk Koch has always been a storyteller. While he's had the good fortune of bringing unforgettable tales to the big screen, some of his favorites are stories that he has only shared with the players involved--told behind the scenes. With a Hollywood career spanning decades of moviemaking and industry leadership--working on seminal films such as Chinatown, The way we were, and Wayne's world, while collaborating with such iconic actors as Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, and Whoopi Goldberg--you'd think filmmaker Hawk Koch would have a strong sense of himself. But growing up as the namesake son of a legendary producer, Hawk explains the burden of having to live up to his father's reputation as 'the nicest man in Hollywood.' With searing honesty, Koch describes what it's like to feel invisible while sharing the same name as his legendary father, and how he was finally able to step out from under that shadow onto the Oscar stage as President of the Academy"--Dust jacket flap