The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood The New Yorker

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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood The New YorkerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A. M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful