Review: Stylish book gumshoes `Chinatown' and lost Hollywood A new book about the making of `Chinatown' links the lives of four people behind the film to the end of the old ways of moviemakingThis cover image released by Flatiron shows "The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood" by Sam Wasson (Flatiron via AP)This cover image released by Flatiron shows "The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood" by Sam Wasson (Flatiron via AP) The Associated Press“The Big Goodbye: ‘Chinatown’ and the Last Years of Hollywood,” Flatiron, by Sam WassonQuentin Tarantino’s hagiographic “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” keeps '60s Los Angeles swinging by wishing away the brutal murder of actress Sharon Tate. In the real world, the trauma to the close-knit film community signified the end of an era both personally and culturally. By comparison, short shrift is given to Faye Dunaway, brilliant as the femme fatale but high maintenance behind the cameras. Looming over both “The Big Goodbye” and “Chinatown” is the City of Angels itself. Wasson's book concludes with a slog through the personal and professional declines of those who achieved career peaks with “Chinatown."

Source: ABC News February 03, 2020 19:18 UTC