Film Flam: Essays On Hollywood

Film Flam: Essays On Hollywood
Larry McMurtry
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743216245
Format: Paperback, 224 pgs
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A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels — Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud — McMurtry writes with an outsider’s irony of the industry and an insider’s experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing, and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western, the disappearance of love in the movies, and the quality of the stars themselves.