Hollywood Animal – Joe Eszterhas

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He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland – stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the world-wide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous – or infamous – screenwriter in Hollywood. Joe Eszterhas is a complex and paradoxical figure- part outlaw and outsider combined with equal parts romantic and moralist. More than one person has called him "the devil". He has been referred to as "the most reviled man in America". But Time asked- "If …