Docu about Robert Caro (author of the power broker) and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. Makes you love writing, makes you want to commit your life to a craft as purely as these two guys have, and makes you want to read the power broker. Delightful!
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I’m halfway through at page 556. I wanted to read my first 1,000 page book this year, and this combines old school power politics , city design, and construction — which are all things I’m interested in. Phenomenal that people did research like this before the internet. Props to Robert A. Caro. Gotta visit New York now.
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It's important to do your homework when entering a new line of work so I've been reading books like Monster by John Gregory Dunne, about the years-long process of writing Up Close & Personal with Joan Didion and a slew of producers, and You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again—the title a send-up of the bestselling You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again (next on my list)—which I purchased on audiocassette and chronicles three high-class hookers blabbing on their celebrity clientele. The Kid Stays In The Picture is read by a very gravelly Bob Evans on audiobook: a must. Michael Ovitz's memoir was involuntarily funny because he's such a liar. I even read Disney War, a book about Michael Eisner's reign of terror at the Walt Disney Company. Now I'm on Tinderbox, which is a newly released oral history of HBO. I think it's good to be familiar with everything that can and has gone wrong in the movie and TV business so you can adjust your expectations and remain cautiously optimistic.
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a book of his journals and writing about writing. every page is an opus and he captures what it’s like to be an artist and distills these instincts / urges, struggles of fitting into the “real” world etc. with language that examines the journey through the psyche
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