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

Sandra V. McGee Author Of The Divorce Seekers: The Intimate True Story of a Nevada Divorce Ranch Wrangler

From Sandra's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Sandra V. McGee Why Sandra loves this book

A candid and honest memoir by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter... shares the downs and ups and more downs of getting a movie made no matter how many credits you already have.

By William Goldman ,

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6 authors picked Adventures in the Screen Trade as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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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…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Kid Stays in the Picture

Sandra V. McGee Author Of The Divorce Seekers: The Intimate True Story of a Nevada Divorce Ranch Wrangler

From Sandra's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

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Sandra's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Sandra V. McGee Why Sandra loves this book

A candid recounting of Robert Evans' career in Hollywood... the ups and downs. I listened to the audiobook, which he narrated.

By Robert Evans ,

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1 author picked The Kid Stays in the Picture as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, to his legendary court case and bust up with Francis Ford Coppola, this is the tell-all autobiography from Robert Evans, the legendary Hollywood producer ("The Godfather", "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown") who's lived the Hollywood dream.


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