The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood By Sam Wasson

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written.Praise for Sam Wasson:"Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker"Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als

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I started to read “The Big Goodbye” after dinner. I read until 11, slept for a few hours, read until 4.The next night, I did it again.Be warned: you may also get lost in Sam Wasson’s book — it is that good. Yes, I’m a sometime screenwriter, and “Chinatown” is one of my favorite movies, and I taught it to my NYU students every year, and I interviewed the reclusive Robert Towne for New York Magazine, so I come with a bias. I’m not alone: Francis Ford Coppola called it “the de facto blueprint for aspiring screenwriters, a platonic ideal of both structure and style taught as a template around the world.” Wearing my screenwriter’s hat, I can knowledgeably report that this is the best film book any film lover is likely to read this year. For others? Maybe one of the best non-fiction books of the year.“The Big Goodbye” is much, much more than the inside, untold story of that 1974 classic.Chinatown, for those who know the film, is a metaphor. For Los Angeles, once a desert, now an irrigated suburbia. For power, which makes gods of the rich. And for a moral fog overhanging a city that advertises its virtues and conceals its vices. It’s a great book about LA in 1937, and a great book about us right now — as Towne has written, “There are some crimes for which you get punished, and there are some crimes that our society isn’t equipped to punish, and so we reward the criminals” — and it has a lot more to feed your head than most of the punditry now passing for wisdom. In case you don’t totally understand the end of the movie (“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown”), 331 pages will hammer that sorry truth home.Yes, but what about the stories — the dish on Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, producer Robert Evans, and the film’s creator, screenwriter Robert Towne? The book is a blow by blow account — literally: cocaine is a minor character here — of the genesis of the film, the shooting, the post-production, and the studio machinations. Like: Towne, who ever since he was 18, took a small dose of amphetamines every morning to give himself a “jump start.” (A solitary genius? Towne had a uncredited partner who worked with him almost every day.) Like, on the first day of shooting, Bob Evans showed up on a stretcher, and Polanski, usually supremely confident, threw up. Like the film score that was so wrong it was scrapped ten days before the premiere. And a million details, so interwoven that you feel Wasson talked to everyone; in fact, Nicholson and Dunaway gave no interviews. [You can understand why when you read this about Dunaway: “The crew finally did turn against Dunaway, and her delusions came true. They hated her. She regarded their every creative impulse with suspicion… Polanski saw signs of an actress who hadn’t prepared… A strand of Dunaway’s hair caught the light in the middle of shooting a scene, he called cut, and summoned her hairdresser to smooth it down… in the next take the hair popped up again and Polanski reached over and plucked it out.”]All that is riveting. But the writing! The writing!

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