Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

Breezy, entertaining look at 100+ years of movies that bombed. They weren't all awful movies; many were victims of bad timing, studio interference, or auteurs given too much freedom. I was most interested in the chapters about movies before my time, such as William Friedkin's Sorcerer, which was released in the midst of the 1977 Star Wars frenzy and sank like a stone, and 1935's Sylvia Scarlett, which almost destroyed Katherine Hepburn's career. I don't need another takedown of Cats; I can find snark about “the butthole cut” anywhere on the internet.