Monster: Living Off the Big Screen

by JohnGregoryDunne (Author)

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  2000

  $4.17

  In Hollywood, screenwriters are a curse to be borne, and beating up on them is an industry bloodsport. In this account of life on the Hollywood food chain, it's a screenwriter who gets the last murderous laugh. In 1998 novelist and journalist John Gregory Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, were asked to write a screenplay about the dark and complicated life of the late TV anchorwomen Jessica Savitch. Eight years and twenty-seven drafts later the script wast turned into the fairy tale Up Close and Personal , starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.