Have you read this Bob Greenblatt book? Normally, when a Hollywood executive is as prolific and impactful as Greenblatt and decides to write a memoir, there would be months of anticipation, industry gossip, and speculation about whether that incident or her blowup would be included. For Greenblatt’s big tell-all, titled The Rockford Files: Epiphanies in Show Business (he’s from Rockford, Illinois), there’s been none of that. He doesn’t even have a publisher.
Instead, the former chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-to-Consumer—and before that the top programmer at both NBC and Showtime, with successful producing stints in TV and Broadway in between—self-published the 414-page book and has been quietly mailing hardback copies to friends and former colleagues. It made its way to me, so I read it last weekend.
