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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
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  • William Goldman
    William Goldman

    …Man, and a popular memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (1983), in which he famously quipped about Hollywood being a place where “nobody knows anything.” In 1987 he adapted The Princess Bride for film, and it later became a cult classic. His career…

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    …Man, and a popular memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (1983), in which he famously quipped about Hollywood being a place where “nobody knows anything.” In 1987 he adapted The Princess Bride for film, and it later became a cult classic. His career…

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