Saturday, November 30, 2024
On this day in movie history - Misery (1990)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Recommended reading – Heat
Heat
by William Goldman.Published by Grand Central Pub.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
ISBN-13: 9780446512756
On this day in movie history - Heat (1986)
Heat
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Recommended reading - Marathon Man
Marathon Man
by William Goldman.
First published 1974.
Published by Random House Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0345439724
ISBN-13: 978-0345439727
Description:
William Goldman's remarkable career spans more
than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist
to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions
of readers as the author of the classic comic-romantic fantasy The Princess
Bride. And he's notorious for creating the most harrowing visit to the dentist
in literary and cinematic history – in one of the seminal thrillers of the
twentieth century. . . .
MARATHON MAN
Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every
sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence –
and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven
suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in
motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery,
and murder – and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to
the fateful question, "Is it safe?"
"Superb . . . One hell of a read." –
The Washington Post.
“An exciting – often funny, often sad – chase
… Goldman does a masterly job.” – Associated Press.
“Well-plotted, expertly characterized, and
fast-paced." – Los Angeles Times.
On this day in movie history - Marathon Man (1976)
Marathon Man
directed by John Schlesinger,
written by, and based on the novel by William Goldman,
was released in the United States on October 8, 1976.
Music by Michael Small.
Monday, August 12, 2024
Born on this day – William Goldman:
Writer
Author and/or screenwriter of Marathon Man,
Princess Bride (book and screenplay), Heat
August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018
Credits:
Books:
Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).
Movies and television:
5 Minutes
(2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of
Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100
Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases
(2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All
Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True:
The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's
Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters
(2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The
Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000);
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci
(1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003);
Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to
Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering
'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look
(2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001);
Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the
Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993);
Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an
Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating
'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie
Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100
Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga
Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon
(1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A
Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies
(2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963);
Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018
(2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
(2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards
(1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's
Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to
Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face
(2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars
(2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of
(1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of
the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the
Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year
of the Comet (1992).
#WilliamGoldman #MarathonMan #PrincessBride #Heat