Adventures in the Screen Trade

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by William Goldman


  Contents

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Author's Note

  Part One: Hollywood Realities

  Chapter One: The Powers That Be

  Stars

  Studio Executives

  Directors

  Producers

  Chapter Two: Elements

  L.A.

  Agents

  Bread

  Meetings

  Auteurs

  Beginnings

  Endings

  Speed

  Subtext

  Protecting the Star

  Believing Reality

  Enduring

  The Ecology of Hollywood (or, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Gunga Din)

  Part Two: Adventures

  Introduction

  Chapter Three: Charly and Masquerade

  Chapter Four: Harper

  Chapter Five: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

  Chapter Six: The Thing of It Is...

  Chapter Seven: The Stepford Wives

  Chapter Eight: The Great Waldo Pepper

  Chapter Nine: All the President's Men

  Chapter Ten: Marathon Man

  Chapter Eleven: The Right Stuff

  Chapter Twelve: Grand Hotel

  Chapter Thirteen: A Bridge Too Far

  Part Three: Da Vinci

  Introduction

  Chapter Fourteen: The Short Story

  Chapter Fifteen: Before We Begin Writing

  Chapter Sixteen: The Screenplay

  Chapter Seventeen: Interviews

  Tony Walton

  Gordon Willis

  Dede Allen

  David Grusin

  George Roy Hill

  Chapter Eighteen: The Relay Race

  Final Fade-In

  About the Author

  Also by William Goldman

  Copyright

  Copyright

  Permission to quote from American Film magazine (c) 1982 is gratefully acknowledged.

  Copyright (c) 1983 by William Goldman All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author's rights.

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  ISBN 978-1-4555-2546-1

 

 

 


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