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Apr 20, 1999 · Using the life and career of producer Don Simpson as a point of departure, High Concept takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout the period, Simpson and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer, were the most successful independent producers in the history of moviemaking, responsible for the hit films ...
- Charles Fleming
Donnie Simpson is a longtime American radio DJ as well as a television and movie personality. He hosted The Donnie Simpson Morning Show on Washington, D.C. , radio station WPGC-FM from March 1993 to January 29, 2010.
THE DON is a docu-drama on the life of the producer of TOP GUN, Don Simpson, which uses narration, clips, and fictional re-enactments via “lost tapes'' to take you behind the scenes into Hollywood’s decade of decadence, the 1980s. Before the era of MeToo, there was Don Simpson the poster boy of toxic masculinity, whose outlandish behavior was not only tolerated but encouraged by the film ...
Apr 22, 1998 · When film producer Don Simpson died of heart failure in 1996 at the age of 52, no one was particularly surprised. As one of Hollywood’s most successful filmmakers as well as its most notorious ...
Top Gun: Maverick. Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie from stories by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. The film is a sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun. Tom Cruise reprises his starring role as the naval aviator Maverick.
Simpson was too far lost to his own depravity to be an effective producer. Though he was involved in several hits in his last year of life - "Bad Boys" (1995), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Dangerous Minds" (1995) and "The Rock" (1996) - Simpson was barely involved in the productions, turning over control to his clean-living partner.
Apr 18, 2023 · After Don Simpson’s death in 1996, Lary Simpson formed his own production company to develop projects initiated by his brother. In 2002, he was an executive producer on the feature film Bad ...
