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Book SynopsisFeatures several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties.
Trade Review"Backstory 4 lives up to the high standards of the previous volumes, providing us with intimate, funny, insightful conversations with the highly articulate and film-literate screenwriters and writer-directors of many of the most memorable American films from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the movie brats, the cult film, and the blockbuster. Each interview is a revelation. Both the interviewers and the subjects are great company. Editor Patrick McGilligan has done it again." - Matthew Bernstein, editor of Controlling Hollywood"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Robert Benton: The New Traditionalist Interview by Christian Keathley Larry Cohen: Manic Energy Interview by Patrick McGilligan Blake Edwards: Jumping Around Interview by Bill Krohn Walter Hill: Last Man Standing Interview by Patrick McGilligan Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Out of India Interview by Vincent LoBrutto Lawrence Kasdan: A Humanist in Hollywood Interview by Graham Fuller Elmore Leonard: The Hot Kid Interview by Patrick McGilligan Paul Mazursky: A Map of the Heart Interview by Nat Segaloff Nancy Meyers: Late Bloomer Interview by Fred Topel John Milius: The Good Fights Interview by Nat Segaloff Frederic Raphael: Renaissance Man Interview by John Baxter Alvin Sargent: Pursuit and Destination Interview by Patrick McGilligan Donald E. Westlake: The Worst That Could Happen Interview by Patrick McGilligan Bibliographic Notes About the Contributors General Index Index of Films, Plays, and Books
