Great Reading for Movie Fans

Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:00 am

Take some time this long weekend to enjoy some of the best-ever writing about making movies, assembled by Slate in conjunction with the fine folks at Longform.org.  Truman Capote profiles Marlon Brando.  Hippies make “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” for $60,000.  Coppola fights everyone, even the mob, to get “The Godfather” made.  And Beatty fights everyone to get “Ishtar” made.  All worth reading!

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