Volume 28, Number 18 · November 19, 1981
Hollywood's Hessians
By John Gregory Dunne
The Craft of the Screenwriter: Interviews with Six Celebrated Screenwriters
by John Brady
Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $16.95
A year or so ago, I went to the funeral of a screenwriter in the chapel of All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills. The deceased had won one Academy Award and been nominated for several others, was a former president of the Writers Guild of America West and a recipient of the Guild's annual Laurel Award for distinguished lifetime service to the art of screenwriting. He had written pictures starring Paul Newman and Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor and Dean Martin and Sidney Poitier and pictures directed by Robert Aldrich and Richard Brooks and Sydney Pollack and George Roy Hill.
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