Reading:
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (2020) by Sam Wasson: a cultural history of Chinatown (1974), as expressed through the careers of four men essential to making the movie: Jack Nicholson (star), Robert Towne (screenwriter), Robert Evans (producer), and Roman Polanski (director). At its best while exploring the process of building what few thought would be a definitive work of its time by people with complicated lives that have been fodder for gossip rags, before and since. A solid thesis about why and how New Hollywood flourished and died. Buy The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood here.
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