Chris Nashawaty

About The Author

Chris Nashawaty is a writer, editor, and film critic. He was on staff at Entertainment Weekly magazine from 1993 to 2019 and regularly writes about entertainment, pop culture, sports, and business for such publications as Esquire, Vanity Fair, Inc., Sports Illustrated, Wired, Fast Company, and The Hollywood Reporter.

He is also the author of three books about film and film history, including The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 (2024), Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story (2018), and Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman, King of the B-Movie (2013). He was a contributing editor on LAIR: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains (2019)

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Books by Chris Nashawaty

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Most Iconic Wheels of the Silver Screen (For Movie & Car Lovers)

Edited by Chad Oppenheim, Chris Nashawaty and Matt Stone / Foreword by Jay Leno

“The coffee-table pit pass for anyone who judges movies by their chase scenes.” Car & Driver

Buckle up for a wildly entertaining, richly informative, and visually stunning look under the hood of 34 of the most indelible cars and motorcycles ever captured on celluloid.

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