The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Here for the first time is the incredible true story of the making of Chinatown—the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema.

IN Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye, the story of Chinatown becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history.

Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and ...