Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when writer William Goldman flew into L.A. for his first Hollywood film, Harper, a chauffeured limousine awaited him. Confounded by the driver's servile attentions Goldman wondered. "What does this have to do with writing." On the road, he saw row upon row of identical, sardine-packed houses and asked. "Is this a housing development?" Laughing, the driver explained that it was in fact, one of the poshest sections of Beverly Hills Goldman took this as a warning, thinking. "Be careful People are strange out here...
...perhaps the most profound revelation of the twentieth century. But voiced by someone who's been there-and Goldman has, having written eleven produced screenplays and umpteen unproduced others--the pronouncement helps solidify the murky image we outsiders have of the land of tinsel. Goldman's new book, the autobiography/gossip/self-help Adventures in the Screen Trade comes at a strange point in his career. Although he's had a hand in some of the silver screen's finest fun-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Hot Rock, Marathon Man, for instance-his last critical and commercial hit. All the President...
...bitching, or at least Hollywood bitching, makes juicy reading Goldman bares the egos, the money hassles, the politicking and nepotism behind the hallowed arches of studio gates and we eat it up. Though he'll stoop to complaining about airport baggage claim, and paints his calling as the most thankless in a business of thankless tasks, he vividly conveys the soulless jockeying for position that forever keeps Hollywood out of touch with quality, if not reality...
...Goldman's most virulent critics, the New Yorker's Pauline Kael, hates his scripts for evoking a "boys'-book, rites-of-manhood universe," replete with macho camaraderie and blue-eyed heroics. She's going to hate Adventures too: Goldman just as simplistically divides real-life moviedom into Heroes and Villains...
What becomes most frustratingly clear is that for the groundtroopers, our nations about the war's morality or immorality were moot from the start. In Charlie Company, as Goldman and Fuller tell it, the was as fought was simply futile. "It could have been over in six months," recalls one angry survivor. "Easy We could have took the 57,000 troops that got killed and put them all in a line behind tanks and APCs instead and just started at one end and walked on across the country...