Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows 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...