Flim Flam: Essays on Hollywood

Just noticed the above-titled book listed at amazon.com. It's by Larry McMurtry and is due out in September.

Here's what amazon.com has to say about it:
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote>Quote:<hr> A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.

With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing, and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western, the disappearance of love in the movies, and the quality of the stars themselves.

From his recollections of the day Hollywood entered McMurtry's own life as he ate meat loaf in Fort Worth to the pleasures he found in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Film Flam is one of the best books ever written about Hollywood. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->

40Winks - - - thanks.

Just ordered ‘Flim Flam’ - Hardcover, at amazon.com -


A few! OF THE LARRY MCMURTRY N O V E L S :::

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PARADISE -
DUANE'S DEPRESSED -
LONESOME DOVE - [Comanche Moon Series]
HORSEMAN, PASS BY - [HUD !!! ]
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW -
LORDS OF THE PLAIN [w/Max Crawford]

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Larry McMurtry: An extraordinary talent who WRITES! and WRITES! and WRITES! He gets it DONE!

I hope that just 'one someone' will read this post and understand: It's in the DOING that gets it DONE! (Quit thinking and write!)

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SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS IS - ?

“DEFT” = draft, edit, form, transmit

Draft: Get it onto the page - - - !

Concern for FORM before being a STORY WRITER is guaranteed to fail. Until you have 'story pages - in any style' you don't have anything to format. WRITE! It’s a process, not a form.

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On "Being" a story writer" - - - is simply a personal decision. "Being" is not a process: it simply is. I am a writer. (That simple!) I did not become a writer.

Example:
I 'decided' - one fine day, that I am a writer. (I never 'try' anything: I do.)
On a different day, I decided to be an airplane pilot and I <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> became one<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->.
I decided to be a writer, and I was one.

I hope you see the difference:
To become a pilot required someone else’s approval because I had to pass tests.

I also decided that I will do all that I can to be an excellent writer, not just a good writer, but an excellent writer. One who maintains a passion for excellence; one who ‘Gives A Damn’ about his characters and their lives because they are real people who deserve the best I can give to them. I am their God - I created them for your pleasure, not for your approval.


40winks - - - thanks for putting Larry McMurtry back into my thoughts - he is an inspiration - as are you.

Gee, Killian, I can't remember the last time I inspired a God! :lol Oh, yeah, it was a week ago last Tuesday. Shakuru sent me champagne for, er, well, personal reasons.

Just kidding around, of course. 8) (A thing worth doing IS worth doing well.)

Thanks, though. Happy reading.
Per your recent posts, your book budget is taking some significant hits.