Friday, March 27, 2020

The Big Goodbye

The Book List

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson, 2020

Read in March 2020.

This was a highly entertaining book about the making of the noir classic Chinatown and Hollywood of the crazy and creative 1970's. I really enjoyed this book and it was one of the best books I've ever read about Hollywood and making movies.

Lots of interesting information about the screenwriters and actors and Jack Nicholson in particular. It's also a biography of the four men who made the movie... Jack Nicholson, director Roman Polanski, screenwriter Robert Towne and producer Robert Evans.

I also very much need to watch Chinatown again soon and a few other movies of that time.


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