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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade

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by William Goldman


  and Marathon Man, 7.1, 8.1

  and Misery, 4.1

  and Rainman, 18.1

  Hole in the Wall gang

  Hollywood: and audience size

  the bank in, 1.1, 1.2

  being at one another's mercy in

  creative accounting in

  doctoring used in

  Dracula pictures as popular in

  duality of

  great studio era of

  handshake business in

  horseshit in, 14.1, 14.2

  Independent films in, 14.1, 14.2

  lepers in, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

  making movies in, see moviemaking

  office size in

  phoniness of

  pitching in

  short-time wonders in

  sleaze in

  as storytellers' campfire, 18.1

  studio executives in, see studio executives

  talent clusters in

  who was who in

  working together in

  Home Alone (film), 1.1, 2.1

  Homer, 9.1, 14.1

  Honorary Consul, The (film)

  Hopkins, Anthony, 7.1, 15.1, 18.1

  Hopkins, Stephen, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1

  Horn, Tom

  Hot Rock, The (film)

  Hot Rock, The (Westlake)

  Howard the Duck (film)

  Hunt, Linda, and Maverick, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

  Hurt, William, 4.1, 4.2

  Huston, John: in Chinatown, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  and Maltese Falcon, 4.1

  Hype and Glory (Goldman), 8.1

  Importance of Being Earnest (drama)

  Independent films, 14.1, 14.2

  Indiana Jones (film), 4.1, 7.1

  information overload

  Innes, Hammond

  Internal Affairs (film)

  In the Line of Fire (film)

  In the Spring the War Ended (film)

  In the Spring the War Ended (Zinackis)

  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (film)

  Iran, hostages in

  Island of Dr. Moreau, The (film), 7.1

  Jackson, Anne

  Jackson, Glenda

  Jackson, Michael

  James, Jesse

  Jaws (film), 5.1, 7.1

  Jewel of the Nile, The (film), 7.1, 7.2

  John, Elton

  Jumping-off-the-Cliff Scene, Butch Cassidy, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

  Jurassic Park (film), 4.1

  Kander, John, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 18.1

  Kaper, Bronislau

  Kaufman, George S.

  Kazan, Elia, 3.1, 4.1, 18.1

  Keaton, Michael, and Batman, 7.1

  Kelly, Gene

  Kenya, Masai Mara Plains in, 7.1, 7.2

  Keyes, Daniel, 2.1, 2.2

  Khouri, Callie

  and Big A, 18.1, 18.2

  career of

  Killers, The (film)

  Kilmer, Val, in Ghost and the Darkness, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  King, Henry

  King, Stephen: and Misery, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 16.1

  as stylist

  King and I, The (film)

  King David (film)

  King Kong (film)

  Kingpin (film), 9.1, 18.1

  Kline, Kevin, 4.1, 4.2

  Koch, Howard, and Casablanca, 7.1

  Kubrick, Stanley, 4.1, 18.1, 18.2

  Kurosawa, Akira

  Lancaster, Burt

  Last Action Hero (film)

  Laverne and Shirley (TV series)

  Lawrence of Arabia (film), 7.1, 11.1, 11.2

  Lean, David, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1

  and Lawrence of Arabia, 11.1

  and screenwriters

  Lear, Norman

  Lehman, Ernest: awards to

  films of

  and Hitchcock

  and North by Northwest, 11.1, 11.2

  quitting

  Lemmon, Jack

  Leonard, Elmore

  leprosy, in Hollywood, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

  Lester, Richard

  Lethal Weapons (film)

  Levine, Joseph E.: as the bank, 1.1, 1.2

  and Bridge Too Far, 1.1, 5.1

  and Sea Kings, 14.1

  three-picture deal with, 1.1, 5.1

  Levinson, Barry

  Lewinsky, Monica

  Lewis, Robert

  Lili (film), score of

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Lion in Winter, The (drama)

  Lion King, The (film)

  lions:

  in Ghost and the Darkness, 7.1, 7.2

  time for

  Little Engine That Could (fable), 18.1

  Little Man Tate (film)

  Littleton, Colorado, school massacre in, 13.1, 16.1

  Lloyd Webber, Andrew

  locomotives (male leads)

  Los Angeles, as American dream

  Love Me or Leave Me (film)

  Low Fives (film)

  Lucas, George

  films in style of

  and sequels

  Lumet, Sidney

  McCarey, Leo

  McCarthy, Kevin

  McCrindle, Joe

  McDormand, Frances, 13.1, 13.2

  McKee, Robert

  McLaglen, Victor

  McMartin, John

  Mad Max (film), 4.1, 7.1

  Magic (film): and author's hot streak

  ending for

  Levine and, 1.1, 5.1

  and magic tricks

  Magic (Goldman), 1.1, 1.2, 5.1

  magic tricks, 6.1, 18.1

  Magnificent Ambersons, The (film)

  Malden, Karl

  Malpaso production company

  Maltese Falcon, The (film), 4.1, 18.1, 18.2

  Mankiewicz, Joseph

  Marathon Man (film): and author's hot streak, 1.1, 8.1

  ending for, 8.1, 14.1

  ideas for

  star behavior in

  Marathon Man (Goldman), 1.1, 5.1, 14.1

  Marshall, E. G.

  Marshall, Penny

  "Mary had a little lamb,"

  Masai Mara Plains, Kenya, 7.1, 7.2

  Mason, James

  Masquerade (film)

  "Mastermind, The" (Story Three)

  Matrix, The (film)

  Maverick (film), 6.1, 17.1

  assumptions in

  casting of

  ending scene of

  fifth draft of

  first draft of

  first showing of

  and Gibson, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 17.1

  hanging scene in, 6.1, 6.2

  Magician in, 6.1, 6.2

  as original screenplay

  poker game in

  rattlesnakes in, 6.1, 6.2

  second to fourth drafts of, 6.1, 6.2

  shooting of

  TV show of

  Mays, Willie

  Meatballs (film)

  media:

  directors loved by, 8.1, 9.1

  and disasters, 5.1, 13.1, 16.1

  and Littleton massacre

  screenwriters ignored by

  Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film), 2.1, 2.2

  Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Saint)

  "Memory" (Lloyd Webber)

  Me Myself and Irene (film), 9.1, 18.1

  Men in Black (film)

  MGM:

  all-star movies from

  and Hitchcock

  in studio era

  Michael (film)

  Midler, Bette, and Misery, 4.1

  Miles from Home (film)

  Milland, Ray

  Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years (Fernandez-Armesto)

  Miller, George

  Miller, Penelope Anne

  Mills, Hayley

  Minnelli, Vincent

  Minority Report (film)

  Miramax studio

  Misery (film)

  Ankle-Breaking Scene in, 4.1, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1

  and Bates, 4.1, 11.1

  and Caan, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 16.1

  casting of


  Misery (film) (continued) and Hill

  and King, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 16.1

  lighter fluid scene in

  Oscar for

  plot of, 4.1, 16.1

  spine of, 11.1, 11.2

  as "two-hander,"

  two kinds of stories in

  Misery (King), 4.1, 4.2

  adaptation of, 11.1, 11.2

  hobbling scene in, 4.1, 11.1

  Miss America Contest, judging of

  Mission: Impossible (TV series)

  Mr. Horn (film), 14.1, 14.2

  Mixed Company (Shaw)

  Mogambo (film)

  Mona Lisa (da Vinci)

  monsters, slowing down for

  Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law

  Moonstruck (film)

  Moore, Douglas

  Moore, Dudley

  Moore, Roger

  Morgan, J. P.

  Morgenstern, S., 3.1, 14.1

  Morris, William, Agency

  Mount Kenya Safari Club

  moviemaking: the bank in, 1.1, 1.2

  beginners in

  boring nature of

  casting in, 4.1, 15.1

  by cinematographers, 13.1, 13.2

  control in

  costs of, 1.1, 8.1

  courtroom scenes in

  creativity and

  crucial work of, 3.1, 7.1

  dealmaking and

  decision makers in, 2.1, 4.1, 13.1

  difficulties of

  documentary look in

  duality of

  element needed in

  film schools

  greenlighters in

  guessing success in

  home runs in

  importance of casting in, 3.1, 7.1

  importance of script in, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

  industry of, see Hollywood

  later stages of

  the money part in, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 18.1

  packaging in

  passion needed in

  postproduction in, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1

  profit motive in, 1.1, 14.1

  ripoffs in

  selling vs., 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  shooting

  sneak previews in, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2

  special effects in, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1

  studio executives and, see studio executives

  tensions of

  time leaps in, 5.1, 7.1, 15.1

  movies: action, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1

  action required in

  action vs. dialogue in

  anything workable for

  "art,"

  commercial

  doctoring of, 2.1, 18.1

  endings for, 8.1, 13.1

  entering late in

  every moment important in

  fast cutting in

  fragility of, 6.1, 7.1

  heroism in

  Hollywood generic vs. Independent, 14.1, 14.2

  ideas for, 14.1, 17.1, 18.1

  making vs. selling of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  mixing genres in

  mixing of

  numbers of characters in, 8.1, 8.2

  openers of, 6.1, 13.1

  pitching of, 7.1, 14.1

  plot points in

  public screenings of

  quality of, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1

  vs. reality, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1

  sequels of

  spines for, 6.1, 10.1

  stars in, see stars

  ten things we'd never know without

  trailers of

  two kinds of stories in

  as unique form

  word of mouth and

  MTV, and fast cutting

  multi-pitching

  Murphy, Eddie, 2.1, 8.1

  Murray, Bill

  My Fair Lady (film)

  mythology: about movie successes

  about stars

  Nash, Ogden

  National Lampoon (film series)

  Neal, Patricia

  Newman, Paul: blue eyes of

  and Butch Cassidy, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1

  and Harper, 16.1

  roles in style of

  as star, 8.1, 14.1

  New York City: fireman story

  invisibility in

  writing in

  New York Daily News, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2

  "New York, New York" (Kander), 14.1, 14.2

  New Zealand murder case

  Nicholson, Jack, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  'Night, Mother (Broadway play)

  Nixon, Richard M.

  "No Man Is an Island" (Donne)

  No Mercy (film)

  North by Northwest (film)

  characters in

  Crop-Dusting Scene in, 11.1, 11.2

  Lehman and, 11.1, 11.2

  Oscars and

  Northwestern University

  Not Executive Power (screenplay working title)

  Notting Hill (film)

  novelist, as camera

  No Way to Treat a Lady (film): ending of

  source material changed in

  No Way to Treat a Lady (Goldman), 14.1, 14.2

  NYU film school

  Oberlin College: author's studies in, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2

  seminar in, ix Odd Man Out (film)

  Officer, An, and a Gentleman (film)

  "Oh Lord, I'm on My Way" (Gershwin)

  "Old Guy, The" (Story One)

  Olivier, Sir Laurence, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1

  O'Neal, Ryan

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), 7.1, 7.2

  "One Perfect Rose" (Parker)

  On the Waterfront (film)

  On Wings of Eagles (film)

  On Wings of Eagles (Follett)

  Orgasm Scene, When Harry Met Sally, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2

  original screenplays, 5.1, 6.1, 14.1

  author's projects

  pitching of

  staying in your genre for

  two Hollywoods and

  see also Big A, The

  Oscars:

  adventure films and

  ceremonies

  comedies and

  quality and, 4.1, 11.1

  screenplays and

  Othello (drama)

  O'Toole, Peter

  Out of Sight (film)

  Out of Sight (Leonard)

  Ovitz, Michael

  Pacino, Al, 4.1, 5.1

  pain:

  Goldman's talent for dealing with

  of screenwriting

  Pakula, Alan: and All the President's Men, 13.1

  obit for

  Palance, Jack

  Paltrow, Gwyneth, 2.1, 14.1

  Paramount Pictures: and Ghost and the Darkness, 7.1

  pitching to

  Parent Trap, The (film), 18.1, 18.2, 18.3

  Parker, Dorothy

  parking scene

  passion, importance of

  Patinkin, Mandy, 3.1, 3.2

  Patterson, John Henry, story of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Patton (film), 7.1, 14.1

  Patton, Gen. George S.

  Pavarotti, Luciano

  Payton, Walter

  Peace Corps survival manual

  Peaks, Pandora

  Peck, Gregory

  Pentagon, Goldman in, 14.1, 18.1

  Peoples, David

  Perfect World, A (film)

  Perot, Ross

  Perry, Anne

  Persona (film)

  Peter's Friends (film)

  Pfeiffer, Michelle, 4.1, 7.1

  Phantom Menace, The (film)

  Philadelphia Story, The (film)

  Picker, David

  Pillow Talk (film)

  pitching, 7.1, 14.1

  goal of

  multi-

  ten commandments of

  your reputation and

  Plainclothes (film)

  Playing Chess with Death Scene, The Seventh Seal, 12.1

  plot points

  poetry

  as compression

  effects of

  form of

  humorous
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br />   Polanski, Roman, 13.1, 13.2

  Porgy and Bess (Broadway musical), 14.1, 14.2

  Postman, The (film), 5.1, 7.1, 13.1

  postproduction, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1

  Premiere magazine

  Pretty Woman (film), 4.1, 7.1

  Princess Bride, The (film)

  Andre the Giant in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  casting for

  Crystal and

  ending of

  mixed genres in, 3.1, 10.1

  money for

  rehearsals for

  Rob Reiner and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1

  screenplay for, 3.1, 13.1

  script readings for

  shooting of, 3.1, 8.1

  sneak previews of, 3.1, 5.1

  tone of

  trailer for

  videocassette of

  Princess Bride, The (Goldman), 1.1, 3.1, 5.1

  editor for

  title of

  "Westley lay dead by The Machine" in

  writing of

  Princeton University, Goldman teaching in, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

  Prize, The (film)

  producers: and first drafts

  meetings with

  and movie quality

  vs. stars

  production, shooting script for

  production designers

  profit motive

  Psycho (film), 11.1, 14.1

  public screenings, first

  Puzo, Mario

  Quatorze Bis, New York bistro

  Raft, George

  rage, writers motivated by, 9.1, 14.1

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (film)

  Rainman, The (film)

  Rain People, The (film)

  Rains, Claude, in Casablanca, 7.1, 14.1

  Rambo (film)

  Ramsey, JonBenet, 16.1, 16.2

  Red Balloon, The (film)

  Red Dust (film)

  Redfield, William

  Redford, Robert: and All the President's Men, 10.1

  and Butch Cassidy, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1

  and Great Gatsby, 7.1

  and Misery, 4.1

  and Mr. Horn, 14.1

  as star, 7.1, 14.1, 15.1

  talent and smarts of, 7.1, 13.1, 15.1

  and Year of the Comet, 1.1

  Reed, Carol

  Reeve, Christopher, and Superman, 11.1

  Reeves, Keanu

  "Reflections on Ice Breaking" (Nash)

  Reiner, Carl: and Princess Bride, 3.1

  and Something Different, 3.1

  Reiner, Estelle

  Reiner, Rob: in All in the Family, 12.1

  and Andre

  Reiner, Rob (continued) career of

  and Good Will Hunting, 18.1

  and Marshall

  and Misery, 4.1, 4.2

  and Princess Bride, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1

  and Stand By Me, 4.1

  and When Harry Met Sally, 10.1, 10.2

  Reit, Seymour, 17.1, 17.2

  Reitman, Ivan

  and Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 2.1, 2.2

  Renoir, Jean

  Return of the Jedi (film)

  Return of the Secaucus Seven (film)

  Reuther, Steve

  revenge, writers motivated by

  Reynolds, Burt

  "Richard Cory" (Robinson)

  Right Stuff, The (film)

  Ritt, Martin

  Rivera, Geraldo

  Road Warrior (film)

  Robards, Jason, Jr.

  Robbins, Jerome, 4.1, 4.2

  Roberts, Eric

  Roberts, Julia, 7.1, 18.1

  Robertson, Cliff

  Robin Hood (film)

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Robinson, Edwin Arlington

  Robin the Boy Wonder (comic book)

  Rock, The (film)

  Rocky (film), 6.1, 7.1, 13.1

  Rodat, Robert

  Roellinger, Professor

  Rogers, Ginger

  Romancing the Stone (film), 7.1, 7.2

  Roman Holiday (film)

  Rooker, Jack

  Rooker, Tom and Melissa

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Ross, Gary

  Ross, Katherine

  Rourke, Mickey

  Roussimoff, A. R. (Andre the Giant), 3.1, 3.2

  obituary for

  in Princess Bride, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  "Rub-a-Dub-Dub Fugitives,"

 

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