Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld has seen some things, and his new book has all of the “sometimes baffling, often enlightening and always funny stories” readers could want.
Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time, out Oct. 1 from Hachette Books, offers a behind-the-scenes look from Sonnenfeld’s four decades in Hollywood and what it took to make mega-franchises like The Addams Family and Men in Black, critical darlings like Get Shorty and Pushing Daisies and what it was like working with icons like Will Smith, John Travolta and Michael Jackson.
Below, in an exclusive excerpt from the book, we find out just how hard Tommy Lee Jones tried to be funny — and what happened when he wasn’t.
Barry Sonnenfeld’s ‘Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time’ book cover.
Hachette Books
It’s the first day of filming Men in Black. It took years to get here, but we are on Stage 27 at SONY’s Culver City lot.
A week earlier I had scouted the stage with the camera, grip,…
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