If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in didn't make the final cut, William Goldman gives you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how MTV has changed movies for the worse,William Goldman, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening and endlessly entertaining, is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.