Name: adventures in the screen trade,a personal view of hollywood and screenwriting
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Author: William Goldman
ISBN: 9780446391177

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adventures in the screen trade,a personal view of hollywood and screenwriting

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Goldman

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Language

English

Pages

608

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 12.8 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN

0446391174

ISBN13

9780446391177

Synopsis "adventures in the screen trade,a personal view of hollywood and screenwriting"

Now available as an ebook for the first time! 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.

William Goldman

(Author)

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William Goldman nació en Highland Park, Illinois (Estados Unidos) el 12 de agosto de 1931. Se estrenó como novelista en 1957 con "The Temple of Gold", y se hizo famoso con "La princesa prometida", que llevó a la pantalla el director de cine Rob Reiner. Firmó novelas con dos pseudónimos, Harry Longbaugh (con el que firmó "No Way To Treat a Lady") y Simon Morguestern (con el que firmó "La Princesa Prometida" y "Los gondoleros silenciosos". En el mundo cinematográfico se hizo muy popular con algunos de sus guiones, como los de las películas "Butch Cassidy and the Sundace Kid (Dos hombres y un destino) con el que ganó su primer premio Óscar, "Todos los hombres del presidente" (su segundo Óscar), "Maraton man", "La princesa prometida", "Misery" (adaptación de una novela de Stephen King), "Memorias de un hombre invisible", "El año del cometa", "Chaplin", "Maverick" o "El indomable Will Hunting". En la actualidad vive en Manhattan, Nueva York (EE.UU).

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