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WolfmanOz at the Movies #65
Follow the money Is the phrase, master screenwriter William Goldman attributed to Deep Throat (aka Mark Felt), the informant who took part in revealing the truth behind the June 1972 Watergate break-in in the superb 1976 political thriller All The President’s Men, although the phrase did not appear in the book or in any of the…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #60
Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true Was the original disclaimer written by legendary screenwriter William Goldman at the beginning of the 1969 western classic Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid although the director George Roy Hill deleted the first five words when he noticed in previews that the caption was…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #31
Is it safe ? A great anecdote in regards to the filming of Marathon Man, released in 1976, is the often quoted exchange between its two stars, Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier concerning their different approaches to acting. Hoffman, a disciple of method acting, is purported to have prepared for a scene where his character…