Persky

According to Persky, it pulled in about $22.6 million in rentals in its initial domestic run (or about $60 million in grosses), five times its negative cost ($4.5 million).

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

According to Persky, Beatty made about $6 million in 1975 dollars.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Wells and Begelman may have been putting the screws to Beatty, but, according to Medavoy and Persky, he had an ace up his sleeve: The Fortune.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Lester “the Investor” Persky was putting together a package of films he was financing for Columbia.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

“I said, after reading the two scripts, I would forgo The Fortune and do Shampoo,” Persky claims.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

In a series of videotaped interviews with Capote conducted by film producer Lester Persky in 1976, Capote defended the union, describing it as perhaps the most normal relationship either one ever had.

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

For as she tells Persky, the retired button manufacturer who tries to pick her up, Holocaust survivors know three lives: The life after is now.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

For as she tells Persky, the retired button manufacturer who tries to pick her up, Holocaust survivors know three lives: The life after is now.

Only during stays 2009

In a series of videotaped interviews with Capote conducted by film producer Lester Persky in 1976, Capote defended the union, describing it as perhaps the most normal relationship either one ever had.

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

In a series of videotaped interviews with Capote conducted by film producer Lester Persky in 1976, Capote defended the union, describing it as perhaps the most normal relationship either one ever had.

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009