Title: With a lot of truth
Product review: If you are looking for a real insider's view into Hollywood, this book is it. How a screenplay comes into being, how many hands touch it, what happens when they get done with it and how it actually becomes something seen on the screen, is all in this book. The politics, the deals, some back-stabbing and some back-slapping are all here. One of the better books ever written about the process of making movies. He begins with a few admissions - no one called him in five years, even after winning an Oscar and later a bigger admission the great flop "The Year of the Comet."Because of the honesty of the admissions, Goldman, makes the book more readable. The process of inventing a character that didn't exist in "The Ghost and The Darkness" and a critical line in "A Bridge Too Far" and why it had to be done that way for the movie's final outcome are discussed. A must read for any one interested not only in screenwriting, but the process of movies.
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