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great book.......2007-07-12
this is a must for everyone interested in screenwriting...a little slow in the beginning but riveting after that
A great read on a fascinating subject by a fine writer.......2005-08-27
Reading this book makes you feel the writer is talking to you personally - it is written in a conversational style .
The author sometimes can't believe the sort of conditions he himself works in or the type of surroundings , he is as confused by them as we are . He is also as captivated by them as we are , coming from a pure love of movies and their magic .
If you are a film fan , do not delay in buying this book .
It will bring a new perspective to viewing a film .
Once you've read it , go and watch BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID , for which the author wrote the screenplay .
A fantastic book !!
Required Reading..........2005-07-09
This is not a text book, but it should be required reading for anyone who wants a career in the motion picture industry - or anyone who loves film in general. Why is it not a textbook? Because it is one heck of an entertaining read. The book runs almost six-hundred pages and I devoured it in just a couple of days.
William Goldman is one of most respected screenwriters alive; he knows as much about it as anyone. What he gives us is a picture of Hollywood (the business and who does what), the art of writing a screenplay, the process of working on a film, and his own personal anecdotes. One of the chief pleasures of the book is how cheerfully gossipy it is. "PART ONE: HOLLYWOOD REALITIES" is full of stories of the excesses of Hollywood that people out there consider normal. A lot of the time he doesn't supply names, but sometimes he does. (Dustin Hoffman, while a brilliant actor, is notorious for being a bit eccentric.) He also gives us an idea of how the studio works and how pictures get made.
The last third of the book will primarily interest serious film students. Goldman includes his entire script for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and uses it as a teaching tool. Then he presents a short story he wrote and uses that as a teaching tool regarding adapting previously written material.
This book was written in 1982 and reading it is a stroll down memory lane. That was a dark time in motion picture history. Most of the films he references from that period have been forgotten. In other words, it is just like today. We need to read this book again more than ever.
Mixed feelings about this book.......2005-04-21
It's hard to review this book. On the one hand, I agree with a lot of what Goldman says (as well as what he says in his follow-up book, "Which Lie Did I Tell?"). There's little doubt, unless you're under 25 and still think digital effects are the reason to go to movies, that Hollywood is rotting from the inside out. On the other hand, I get the feeling that Goldman would be coming up with excuses for why he never really quite made it as big in Hollywood as it looked like he once would, even if none of the problems with Hollywood existed. Because--and here's a secret--Goldman really isn't a great screenwriter. I know I'm going against the trend here. I know he worked on some major 70s films and I know he used to make bread most of us can only dream about, but honestly, his greatest contributions are Butch Cassidy and The Princess Bride, and Butch really isn't a great screenplay (it's a great *idea* for a screenplay, though) and even Princess Bride--despite all the hype in a relatively boring year--is merely so-so. If I had to pick a favorite Goldman work, of all the ones I've seen I'd vote for All The President's Men.
The book is a great introduction to Hollywood for anyone who still have visions of the dream factory dancing in their head. Since the early 1980s, when he wrote this book, things have only gotten more manic, more insecure, more crazy, with the product getting worse and worse every year. (In that sense this book is out of date, and the interested student should read "Which Lie" or some other recent book.) What I find schizophrenic about Goldman's book is that he properly cites the reasons for the decline of Hollywood, yet when he was writing he wasn't exactly turning out paradigm-changing works either. He contributed more than his share of phony, by-the-numbers screenplays; often in this book I get the feeling that Hollywood has just passed him by. And his ideas for movies like The Right Stuff pale compared with what was eventually made. I'm rather glad he walked that picture--one of my favorites of the 1980s--and that Kauffman wrote his own screenplay instead.
Still, some of Goldman's war stories are highly entertaining and revealing. His famous dictum NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING has become mantra among aspiring Hollywood creatives, and it's largely true. And his definition of comic book movies is classic, and much food for thought, especially for aspiring creatives. At the same time, some of his movies are as bad as the ones he rips on.
The book includes the full screenplay to Butch Cassidy. I can't figure out why, other than he can't seem to let go of that one creation. Throughout the book it's "Butch this" and "Butch that," and 20 years later in his sequel ("Which Lie") book he's still on the Cassidy kick. I don't know a film school teacher or anyone else for that matter, besides Goldman himself, who thinks it's a work worthy of study, so the inclusion here strikes me as pure vanity. He also includes an adaptation of a short story he wrote called "Da Vinci." Neither story nor adaptation moved me much. I think he's brave, however, to let something this lame be read, along with critical comments about it, when he was still in the biz at that time. I know I would never show that draft to anyone.
The book is breezy fun, but you might want to either check it out at a library or get a really cheap used copy. Makes a good airplane book--you buy it on one coast, read it over the heartland, and throw it in the trash can when you get off the plane five hours later.
Writing a screen play or just want a great book on filmaking.......2004-12-17
One of the few authors to whom I have written a fan letter. This is a great read on it's own merit. More than that, it is an absolute must to read this before you dig into those boring, senseless, textbook-like tomes on screenwriting. This is the real deal written by someone who has actually crafted some fantastic films, not just some guy whose only accomplishment is writing a book about screenwriting.
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Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in Hollywood.
Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) have anxiously waited for this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of big hits and critical bombs in the '80s and '90s. Here Goldman scoops on The Princess Bride (his own favorite), Misery, Maverick, Absolute Power, and others. Goldman's conversational style makes him easy to read for the film novice but meaty enough for the detail-oriented pro. His tendency to ramble into other subjects may be maddening (he suddenly switches from being on set with Eastwood to anecdotes about Newman and Garbo), but we can excuse him because of one fact alone: he is so darn entertaining.
Like most sequels, Which Lie follows the structure of the original. Both Goldman books have three parts: stories about his movies, a deconstruction of Hollywood (here the focus is on great movie scenes), and a workshop for screenwriters. (The paperback version of the first book also comes with his full-length screenplay of Butch; his collected works are also worth checking out). This final segment is another gift--a toolbox--for the aspiring screenwriter. Goldman takes newspaper clippings and other ideas and asks the reader to diagnose their cinematic possibilities. Goldman also gives us a new screenplay he's written (The Big A), which is analyzed--with brutal honesty--by other top writers. With its juicy facts and valuable sidebars on what makes good screenwriting, this is another entertaining must-read from the man who coined what has to be the most-quoted adage about movie-business success: "Nobody knows anything." --Doug Thomas
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From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and
The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of
Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider information.
If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in
Misery-it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in
Maverick didn't make the final cut-William Goldman gives you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how MTV has changed movies for the worse-William Goldman, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening and endlessly entertaining,
Which Lie Did I Tell? is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.
Customer Reviews:
Which Lie Did I Tell?.......2007-03-29
The best of it's kind for anyone interested in screen writing. Easy to read, full of help, Excellent.
The Trials and Tribulations of a Hollywood Screenwriter. And Some Advice. .......2006-07-31
"Which Lie Did I Tell?" is a follow-up to William Goldman's 1983 book "Adventures in the Screen Trade" in which the screenwriter gives us the inside scoop on Hollywood moviemaking from a unique point of view -that of the writer- and provides some lessons in screenwriting through examples from his own and others' attempts to create movies from the raw materials of experience and imagination. This book has 4 parts, but if you're only interested in the stories Goldman has to tell about his Hollywood experiences, those are found in Part 1. Parts 2-4 address the craft of screenwriting: what works, what doesn't, why, and how to pitch it. Goldman is opinionated, blunt, and he refers to his Oscar-winning "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" screenplay far too often. It's obviously his pride and joy. "Which Lie Did I Tell?" is briskly paced, personal, and it gives us the lowdown on what it takes -not just the writing talent, but the mettle- to write movies in Hollywood.
Goldman starts with the 9 years he didn't work, 1978-1986, after having written 7 movies in the prior 8 years. Not exactly encouraging to aspiring screenwriters. Then Goldman takes us through his experiences writing -and in some cases filming- seven screenplays he wrote 1986-1997: "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "The Princess Bride", "Misery", "The Year of the Comet", "Maverick", "The Ghost and the Darkness", and "Absolute Power". These screenplays provide insight into a variety of writing challenges, as some are original, some adapted, one adapted from Goldman's own book, some from novels, some entirely fictional, and one is based on a true story. And, of course, some were hits, some flops, and one didn't make it. Goldman relates the ideas behind these movies, his intentions and struggles in writing them, with plenty of commentary on studio executives, stars, directors, and test audiences. Goldman's goal is to tell it like it is in the screen trade.
In Part 2, Goldman examines the screenplays for some famous -and famously successful- movie scenes from "There's Something About Mary", "When Harry Met Sally", "North by Northwest", "The Seventh Seal", "Chinatown", "Fargo", and his own "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". He presents analysis and opinion on why these scenes work so well and shares his technique for finding the heart of the material when adapting work for the screen. In Part 3, Goldman looks at some real-life dramas that might make interesting movies, but notes the difficulties in adapting them and discusses the problems inherent in writing about real people. Part 4 is a screenplay that Goldman wrote in order that others might criticize it for this book, followed by critiques from 6 successful screenwriters. This is a worthwhile exercise that really illuminates the pitfalls of creating characters for the screen.
Which Lie....?.......2006-06-25
a hilarious account of the 'politics of hollywood' from the perspective of a brilliant writer...
Another Great Read from Goldman.......2004-11-08
I loved Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade and loved this book almost as much. It's interesting, funny and revealing, written in a casual and frank manner that you'd expect from a good friend. Goldman writes books and screenplays in multiple genres because he focuses on whether each story is one he wants to tell - not whether it's the same type of story he succeeded with before. What amazes me about this versatile writer is his generosity. In this book he discusses his creative processes and offers detailed, useful guidance to aspiring writers (for comparison, Joe Ezterhaus did not do this in his interesting memoir). At the end of the book, Goldman even has the guts to offer up a new script draft for criticism by top screenwriters whose comments he includes. Who else would dare to expose his work-in-process like that? Not I! He is my hero.
The Land of Dreams.......2004-08-28
After the Adventures in the Screen Trade many years ago, I had to sink my eyes in this second adventure. I must admit to being a Goldman fan. It was a hard volume to put down. I went from cover to cover in a couple of days. Back again a few more times. I laughed so many times I felt dizzy. Kinda got a buzz! Good reads are supposed to do that to you! Goldman's read is cool! It's heavy with experience! He's crossed a lot of bridges, built some, and burned some too! This one is a Do Not Miss read too. As usual, no butt kissing here! He tells it like it is, not how it should be! An E-ride ticket to how things are in Dreamland. Hey, Goldman! We're waiting for the next Adventure!
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Introducing 7-String Guitar, the first-ever method book written especially for seven-stringed instruments. It teaches chords, scales and arpeggios, all as they are adapted for the 7-string guitar. It features helpful fingerboard charts, and riffs & licks in standard notation and tablature to help players expand their sonic range in any style of music. It also includes an introduction by and biography of the author, tips on how to approach the book, a guitar notation legend, and much more!
"Andy's book, 7 String Guitar, is a practical and useful tool for approaching the 7 string beast. It offers players the opportunity to expand their finger-fetishing vocabulary." - Steve Vai
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A serious chord and scale reference book.......2004-09-07
As the title states, this is a reference book, not a method book. If you are looking for a more beginner-friendly example of the latter, with mostly riffs and simplified theory, try "Introducing 7-String Guitar" by Dan Begelman. This Andy Martin tome is a serious reference book of chords, scales and modes expanded to the 7-string guitar. If you are familiar with the "Guitar Grimoire" reference series, this book is more along those lines. Not quite as hefty as most "Grimoire" books, at 96 pages it is also no lightweight. There is very little instruction in this book, except for a very little theory at the beginning, which tends toward the more intermediate realm of modes and chord names and structure. Once you're past the "welcome" and "how to use this book" fluff at the beginning, there are only 8 pages with any text at all on them in the remaining 90 or so pages, and a couple of those only have a paragraph. Riffs are equally scarce, with only a handful of examples at the end of the book. The book includes tablature, for those who prefer tabs to sheet music, but Martin advises the reader to not only learn to read music to the point where you can look at a staff and hear the music in your head, but also to ear train until you can recognize a chord and a key signature the minute you hear a song. Unfortunately, this book misses an opportunity to assist more with the latter, as there is no included CD -- not a huge loss since there are so few riffs to demonstrate, but it could still have been useful for demonstrating what Martin says about the moods and "colors" of the different modes (as Thelonius Monk said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."). This is a good book, as long as you are buying it looking for scales and chords to practice. And if you do earnestly practice from this book regularly, you can't help but improve as a player. If you are taking lessons from a professional teacher, this book should make an excellent workbook. But if you're looking to ease into 7-string a little more gently, or only want to learn via example riffs and an accompanying CD rather than page after page of chords and scales, the aforementioned Begelman book is probably the better choice. It all comes down to how you learn best.
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Peter Hyman wants the model/Fulbright Scholar girlfriend, the job with generous stock options and the well-appointed 2BR w/vu. Instead he routinely finds himself single and underemployed in his closet-free walk-up. The last woman he liked got back together with her lesbian lover; the one before that threw up on the first date.
Welcome to the almost hip life of a reluctant metrosexual–a straight man whose tastes are just gay enough. Equal parts cultural anthropologist, amateur sexologist and witty skeptic, Hyman wryly chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood, whether he’s undergoing a painful Brazilian bikini wax, lurching through a disastrous threesome, or poignantly reflecting on the Scotch-soaked grief of a difficult breakup.
So sit back in your Eames lounger and revel in the good fortune that The Reluctant Metrosexual is not you, it’s him.
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Paean to a pathetic and pointless lifestyle.......2007-05-06
If there is one thing to say about "The Reluctant Metrosexual," it is that I managed to make it to the end. There were numerous times during listening to the audio book that I was tempted to put an end to my involvement, finding the book's pompous and supercilious tone off-putting. The introduction was especially precious and grating, the effect of the author's narcissistic desire to be comedic, shallowly topical and engaging. I nearly did not make it to chapter one. Only the (minimal) investment of having transferred the book to my IPod kept me listening long enough to reach deeper waters.
The book is a series of essays written about the dating and sexual life of a mid-30s New York writer. Peter Hyman is one of the breed of self-conscious, morality-impaired, culture referencing urbanites who populate shows like "Seinfeld." Except with less wit and barely more insight.
Hyman reflects on his Detroit childhood, his stint at law school, hsi first pair of leather pants, his few years as a fact-checker at Vanity Fair, and his many unfulfilled and realized sexual liaisons. The book achieves its maximum depth when Hyman ruminates on the great, lost love of his life -- a woman who seemed devoted to Hyman, but evidently failed to see enough that was worthy of her continued involvement with him. Hyman was unemployed and searching for himself at the time. But at his (and her) age, with dreams of parenthood dancing in their heads, there is no time to wait for someone who is commitment-neutral, or appears so. Hyman's tale of this tragic "amour manqué" is not deep, not especially revelatory, but had enough pathos to keep me listening.
I often found my attention wandering as I listened to this book. There was not enough detail, cultural insight or fascinating self-revelation to keep me riveted. Then too, Hyman's sloppiness and the boring state of his life were enough to make one long to look away. Sloppy? He compared the pain of a male bikini wax (weird enough in itself) to the rigors faced by "the first Apollo astronauts." At first, I thought this was a gruesome reference to the fiery deaths of three astronauts training aboard Apollo 1. But then I realized that Hyman meant to reference the rigors undergone by the "Right Stuff" astronauts of the *Mercury* program in the early 60s. If you're going to make your living making cute cultural references, at least get them right. Boring? Consider that a halfway socially-engaged human being would have no interest in pursuing anonymous 3-way sex just for the ability to write about it later. Nor spend time on internet dating sites. And let's not forget the aforementioned bikini wax.
There is little about supposed metrosexuals in the book. Hyman portrays himself as a hetero aesthete, but there is little in his life (aside from a few snotty opinions about Italian dress shirts, wine preferences and cocktail-party literary references) to justify this self-identification. Hyman's reading style is a distraction as well. He doesn't seem to grasp the complexities of the sentences he has himself written. His voice does not convey his parenthetical asides in a way that the listener can understand.
Yet, I completed the book, which is (perhaps) to damn it with faint praise. Though I would not recommend "The Reluctant Metrosexual" to any of my book-reading friends, neither would I discourage anyone from reading it. There is a certain fascination in encountering the banality of the life Hyman has chosen, or rather (since he seems to live without purpose) found himself living. His unhappy life -- devoutly wishing parenthood while living in perpetual hedonistic adolescence -- is in some ways a warning.
That being said, I wish Hyman the best in moving on to a new level of maturity that seems to have eluded him thus far. It might make his next book (and there will be a next book) more interesting.
get it as book on tape.......2006-07-13
although the material and genre aren't particularly new, this was a nonetheless amusing listen. I would recommend listening to it either on a boring drive or to multitask as it goes pretty quickly and is overall funny.
inspiring, sardonic growing-up essays.......2005-05-15
"The Reluctant Metrosexual" is styled as an exploration of the phenomenon of the stylish, straight man; however, it is much more a story of growing up in an era when the phrase refers not to what one does before one turns eighteen, but what one does afterward. Peter Hyman relates, in a series of essays, his adventures in dating, employment, family life, and travel since leaving law school. His wide variety of experiences yield plentiful fodder; the essays are generally interesting and range from lighthearted anecdotes about dating to more serious explorations of career and family as they affect the young and overprivileged.
Although well-written (excepting a few slow patches), the book occasionally veers into self-indulgence and laziness. Hyman's heartache over his most promising failed relationship haunts the entire book. His metrocentrism - a total focus on the lives of yuppies-in-training, which includes those of all religions and sexual orientation but nobody living outside Manhattan - is equally pervasive and much more irritating. However, the author's animated voice and sardonic humor overcome these failings. "The Reluctant Metrosexual" is an easy but inspiring read.
The boy has skills!!!.......2005-02-04
I picked this book up on a whim thinking it would be an interesting diversion from the novels, biographies, and science books that I normally read and I was pleasantly surprised. This is one of the best pop culture books that I have read in a while. Peter Hyman has a witty dry style that takes time to get used to but after the first two chapters he had me. I purposely slowed the pace of my reading so I could stretch my Peter Hyman fix across as many days possible.
The writing is tight in all its wordiness and veiled references to books I have never read and will probably never read but this is Peter Hyman's style. The chapter on his foray into Mexico where he was promptly shaken down by their goon squad known as the police was particularly funny. I found it hard to discern when he was trying to be funny or thoughtful. This is much easier to pick-up with a writer like Al Frankin who changes his flow and modifies his word choice.
He calls this a collection of essays but it is more like an autobiography of a man who has very little to write about. He graduated from college dropped out of law school and suffered the loss of a few relationships here and there. He strikes me a person who over thinks situations and is susceptible to post-mortem Romanization. This is not an incitement of the man, it's a simple observation. When he talks about the wife and white picket fence and 2 ½ children he yearns for he sounds like child away from summer camp who wants to go home.
This book may be nothing more than an exercise in self-indulgence but I am glad I had an opportunity to read it. Peter Hyman's niche may lie in his ability to write about nothing and turn it into something that sounds semi-profound. I don't know what he is going to write about next but I would buy anything that Peter Hyman published so long as he doesn't talk about Italian shirts again.
Bk. travels well, as any (reluctant) metrosexual might.......2005-01-28
I just returned from a trip to Cancun, and the experience was definitely enhanced by taking The Reluctant Metrosexual along with me. I (a Jearthy girl, Peter's term for those of us who are Jewish and outgoing) had the book in my clutches on the flight, and Peter's wit and transporting stories made the time pass at warp speed. I also read on the hotel balcony, and his tales of love's promise, love's loss and life's trials and tortures -- the kind specific to big city life -- washed satisfyingly over me. Having completed the book, I took Dave Eggers with me to the beach, but he wasn't nearly as entertaining or insightful. I recommend The Reluctant Metrosexual to those who want to bring, in a highly literate way, a little voyeurism and vicarious living into their day.
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The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches From An Almost Hip Life
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Robert L. Mott
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During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their programs in an environment far different from the studios of today. With live programming, anything could happen, and often did. Robert L. Mott, a veteran writer and Emmy-nominated sound effects creator of the live era, recreates the days when television and radio programs were performed live. He includes personal reminiscences as well as a forthright look behind the microphones: horses' hooves were played by coconuts, African-American women were played by white males, and television actors might ad lib an entire program that didn't go as planned. Celebrities like Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason, as well as the unsung heroes in the sound booth and backstage, step up to the mike here. Behind-the-scenes photographs are also included in this account of the exciting—but not always glamorous—world that was "live on the air."
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A humorous historical review of early T.V shows.......2000-10-11
Finally, a historical,yet humorous look back at the makings of the T.V shows so fondly remembered by all baby boomers. Taken for granted as produced according to modern day methods, I now have a new appreciation and profound respect for the talent and sheer guts of those early T.V pioneers. Thanks to Mr. Mott's unique position of both an eye witness and participant in the making of the shows that shaped a generation,this most fondly shared American experience has been preserved for all time. Bravo! And please Mr. Mott don't stop now. Give us more!
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- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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- Codependent... What a Bore and Other Clinical Observations: Stop Struggling Under Pseudo-Psychology And Consider Suing The Idiots Mistreating You
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- Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television
- Dishing Hollywood: The Real Scoop on Tinseltown's Most Notorious Scandals
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