I first read William Goldman’s Adventures In The Screentrade in my early 20s. It was a revelation. Here was the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride and Marathon Man sharing wildly indiscreet details about a profession I longed to be part of. The book was essentially wall-to-wall war stories - the subtext being
Incredible
How I loved that book. Up there with Neil Simon’s ‘Rewrites’. Had forgotten that passage. Fantastic
Sounds like a book recommendation about a book :-)