Adventures in the Screen Trade
Now available as an ebook for the first time! No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's...
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Now available as an ebook for the first time! No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446391177 (0446391174)
Publish date: March 10th 1989
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 594
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Language,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Culture,
Film,
Biography Memoir,
Tv
(Note to self, paperback copy has been read enough such that it's falling apart. If you suddenly find yourself looking for it? It's probably fallen to bits.)
dishy, delicious, and—shockingly—very, very useful.a couple years back i thought i'd move to hollywood and write movies for a living.i love movies.i write good.what could go wrong?everything. everything could go wrong.because being a screenwriter is exactly like john august describes—except with a s...
I had wanted to read this book for years, ever since typing innumerable papers for University of Texas Radio-Television-Film students forced to read and report on it for some beginner class. It wasn't their reports that interested me, but the fact that this text was considered the sine qua non of th...
I like Goldman's writing and I'm fascinated at the way movie-making works. Great combo.