Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and the Screenwriting

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and the Screenwriting by Goldman, William. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780446512732.

Now available as an ebook for the first time! No one knows the writers 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 Hollywoods inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the Presidents 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, "Youll be fascinated.