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In 1967 John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got ir. For one year, Dunne went everywhere he could go and talked to everyone within the studio. The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business.
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WHICH LIE DID I TELL?
William Goldman has been writing books and movies for forty-five years. He has won three Lifetime Achievement awards for screenwriting, two Screenwriter of the Year awards, two Academy Awards (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men), and one English Academy Award. His novels include Marathon Man, which has made him very famous in dentists’ offices around the world, Boys and Girls Together, The Temple of Gold, and The Princess Bride. He lives in New York City.
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Fiction
The Temple of Gold (1957) Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958) Soldier in the Rain (1960) Boys and Girls Together (1964) No Way to Treat a Lady (1964) The Thing of It Is … (1967) Father’s Day (1971) The Princess Bride (1973) Marathon Man (1974) Magic (1976) Tinsel (1979) Control (1982) The Silent Gondoliers (1983) The Color of Light (1984) Heat (1985) Brothers (1986)
Nonfiction
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969) The Making of “A Bridge Too Far” (1977) Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (1983) Wait Till Next Year (With Mike Lupica) (1988) Hype and Glory (1990) Four Screenplays (1995) Five Screenplays (1997)
Screenplays
Masquerade (with Michael Relph) (1965) Harper (1966) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Hot Rock (1972) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) The Stepford Wives (1975) All the President’s Men (1976) Marathon Man (1976) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Magic (1978) Mr. Horn (1979) Heat (1987) The Princess Bride (1987) Misery (1990) The Year of the Comet (1992) Maverick (1994) The Chamber (1996) The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Absolute Power (1997)
Plays
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (with James Goldman) (1961) A Family Affair (with James Goldman and John Kander) (1961)
For Children
Wigger (1974)
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