num_pages: 608
description: 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.
language: English
title: Adventures in the Screen Trade
titlecomplete: Adventures in the Screen Trade
genres: Media Tie In, History, Pop Culture, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Writing, Film, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 7475
publisher: Grand Central Publishing