Joan Rivers, Read any good Hollywood tell-alls lately? – By the Book – NYTimes.com

Read any good Hollywood tell-alls lately? What book, in your opinion, really gets Hollywood right?

James Kriegsmann/ Michael Ochs Archives: via Getty
James Kriegsmann/ Michael Ochs Archives: via Getty

Most of them are too soft and too phony. But one great, real Hollywood read is Nathanael West’s “The Day of the Locust.” There is also an amazing book by William Goldman called “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” which tells the inside pain that even a most successful screenwriter goes through.

via Joan Rivers – By the Book – NYTimes.com.

And, if I might add my two cents, “Monster, Living Off the Big Screen” by John Gregory Dunne.

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2 Comments

  1. rschulenberg
    July 19, 2015

    I hope this doesn’t sound sycophantic but “IT’S IN HIS KISS” does a pretty good job of unmasking!

    • July 19, 2015

      It sounds gorgeous! xox, V

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