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Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm
boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to
love another. So, when she hears that his ship has been captured by
the Dread Pirate Roberts (no survivors) her heart is broken. But
her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck
who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So
starts a fairy tale like no other, of fencing, poison, true love,
hate, revenge, giants, bad men, good men, snakes, spiders, chases,
escapes, lies, truths, passion and miracles, and a damn fine story.
Now available as an ebook for the first time
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William
Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the
bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls
Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's
inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the
plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of
acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and
into his own professional experiences and creative thought
processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look
at why and how films get made and what elements make a good
screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
When William Goldman first published 'The Princess Bride' in 1973, he had no idea that over the next 25 years it would go on to sell an average of 40,000 copies a year in paperback. This is a new edition of his cult classic, a story of pirates, evil princes, sorcerers, and true love.
(Applause Books). William Goldman, who holds two Academy Awards for
his screenwriting ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the
President's Men ), and is author of the perennial best seller
Adventures in the Screen Trade, scrutinizes the Hollywood movie
scene of the past decade in this engaging collection. With the
film-world-savvy and razor-sharp commentary for which he is known,
he provides an insider's take on today's movie world as he takes a
look at "the big picture" on Hollywood, screenwriting, and the
future of American cinema. Paperback.
William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their
fellow adventurers in a beautifully illustrated deluxe edition that
is perfect for fans of the book and film. This tale of true love,
high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and
a frightening assortment of wild beasts, as depicted in the 1987
film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Fred Savage, Robin Wright,
and others, is now available in a beautiful new package, with foil
and embossing on the cover and an interior printed on elegant
uncoated cream stock with rough-cut edges. This keepsake edition
also includes fifty full-page color illustrations by Michael
Manomivibul, full-color chapter openers, and a gorgeous color map
printed on the endpapers.
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Jason Statham and Michael Angarano star in this action drama from
director Simon West. Gambling addict Nick Wild (Statham) works as a
bodyguard for millionaire Cyrus Kinnick (Angarano) while he is in
Las Vegas. After helping his friend Holly (Dominik Garcia-Lorido)
get revenge on Danny DeMarco (Milo Ventimiglia), the gangster who
raped her, Nick finds himself wanted by the Mob. Can he make it out
of Las Vegas alive? The cast also includes Stanley Tucci, Hope
Davis, Sofía Vergara, Jason Alexander and Anne Heche.
Passing the Torch describes the remarkable achievements of public
university students from marginalized populations who transcend
oppression and poverty to become powerful leaders for social
justice. Ruth and Bill Goldman drew upon their expertise in mental
health and higher education to launch a scholarship program in the
San Francisco Bay Area which provides assistance to people of
color, recent immigrants and others from marginalized populations,
in order to help them become leaders for social change. In addition
to tuition assistance, they offer a package of wrap around benefits
to replicate the support higher income students receive from their
families. To date, every single participant graduated from college
and more than seventy percent earned graduate degrees from
prestigious universities. Ruth Goldman's personal story as a
Holocaust survivor and Bill's as the grandson of Jewish refugees
who fled discrimination inform the program and draw a parallel to
the plight of modern day refugees and the disenfranchised seeking
opportunity in the United States today. Passing the Torch shows how
the New Leader Scholars overcome poverty and discrimination in
order to acquire an education while sustaining their idealism as
they strive to achieve greater equity and justice for all.
This collection includes the complete screenplays of The Princess
Bride, Misery, The Marathon Man and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid along with introductory essays to each screenplay by William
Goldman.
This volume is based on lectures given at the highly successful
three-week Summer School on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of
Character Varieties held at the National University of Singapore's
Institute for Mathematical Sciences in July 2010.Aimed at graduate
students in the early stages of research, the edited and refereed
articles comprise an excellent introduction to the subject of the
program, much of which is otherwise available only in specialized
texts. Topics include hyperbolic structures on surfaces and their
degenerations, applications of ping-pong lemmas in various
contexts, introductions to Lorenzian and complex hyperbolic
geometry, and representation varieties of surface groups into
PSL(2, ) and other semi-simple Lie groups. This volume will serve
as a useful portal to students and researchers in a vibrant and
multi-faceted area of mathematics.
A collection of five screenplays by this Academy Award-winning
writer. Includes: All the President's Men * Magic * Harper *
Maverick * The Great Waldo Pepper. Also features essays by Goldman:
"Getting Even or Creative Accounting," "Sneak Previews, or Why Did
She Have to Die?," "Hype or Consequences: A Brief History of the
Future," "Shooting from the Hip: Don't You Know Anything About
Screenwriting?," and "Nothing for Me to Steal: The Secret Life of
an Adaptation."
Here William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and
their fellow adventurers finally receives a beautiful illustrated
treatment.
A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses,
giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild
beasts--"The Princess Bride" is a modern storytelling classic.
As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant
Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love,
kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate,
forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the
very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course
of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini--the criminal
philosopher who'll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik--the
gentle giant; Inigo--the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge;
and Count Rugen--the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all
their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess
Buttercup's one true love and a very good friend of a very
dangerous pirate.
What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the
handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot
less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read
the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up
he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's
recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts
Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh
Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or
Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell
Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little
Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE
was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of
what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the
handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a
bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by
combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE
PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
"From the Paperback edition.
The automorphisms of a two-generator free group $\mathsf F_2$
acting on the space of orientation-preserving isometric actions of
$\mathsf F_2$ on hyperbolic 3-space defines a dynamical system.
Those actions which preserve a hyperbolic plane but not an
orientation on that plane is an invariant subsystem, which reduces
to an action of a group $\Gamma $ on $\mathbb R ^3$ by polynomial
automorphisms preserving the cubic polynomial $ \kappa _\Phi
(x,y,z) := -x^{2} -y^{2} + z^{2} + x y z -2 $ and an area form on
the level surfaces $\kappa _{\Phi}^{-1}(k)$.
As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning
screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining
as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and
Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of
movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and
Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most
exciting business in the world.
William Goldman is famous for his Academy Award-winning screenplays, infamous for the thriller that did for dentists what Psycho did for showers, beloved for his hilarious "hot fairy-tale," and notorious for his candid behind-the-scenes Hollywood chronicles. But long before Butch and Sundance, Buttercup, and the Tinsel-Town tell-alls, he made his mark as one of the great popular novelists of the twentieth century. Now his sweeping, classic tale of a generation's tumultuous coming-of-age is at last back in print.
BOYS & GIRLS TOGETHER
Aaron, Walt, Jenny, Branch, and Rudy. They are children of America's post-war generation, as different from one another as anyone can be. Yet they are bound together by the traumas of their pasts, the desperate desire to capture their dreams and satisfy their passions, the stirring pleasures of sexual awakening--and the twists of fate that will inextricably link their lives in the turbulent world of 1960s New York City.
'Babe hobbled to his feet. His ankle hurt like hell and his face
had scraped along the pavement, but he knew the sound of a beaten
runner when he heard it. I'm a marathon man, he thought, a real
one, and you better not mess with me. Then Jesus, Babe thought
suddenly - they're coming for me in the car.' Tom 'Babe' Levy is a
runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of
athletic and academic excellence - and endlessly away from the
spectre of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an
unexpected visit from his beloved older brother sets in motion a
chain of events that plunges Babe into a vortex of treachery and
murder. Stumbling into the violent world of couriers and assassins,
espionage and torture, the boy who dreamed of winning races
suddenly becomes a man forced to race for his life ...and for the
answer to the fateful question, 'Is it safe?'
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider information.
If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in Misery-it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in Maverick 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, Which Lie Did I Tell? is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.
Acclaimed for such Academy Award—winning screenplays as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and such thrillers as Marathon Man, not to mention the bestselling classic The Princess Bride, William Goldman stands as one of the most beloved writers in America. But long before these triumphs, he caused a sensation with his brilliant first novel, a powerful story of reckless youth that was hailed as a worthy rival to The Catcher in the Rye.
THE TEMPLE OF GOLD
Ray Trevitt is coming of age in the American midwest of the late 1950s. Handsome, restless, eager to live life and to find his place in the world, Ray hurtles headlong through a young man’s rite of passage–searching for answers and somewhere to belong. What he discovers is that within friendships and love affairs, army tours and married life, victory and tragedy, lie the experiences that will shape his destiny, scar his soul, and ultimately teach him profound lessons he never expected.
Now available as an ebook for the first time
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William
Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the
bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls
Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's
inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the
plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of
acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and
into his own professional experiences and creative thought
processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look
at why and how films get made and what elements make a good
screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
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