About the Book:
The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life is universally recognized as
the greatest, most outrageous, most unforgettable show business
memoir ever written. The basis of a groundbreaking, award-winning
documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood
storytelling.
The only actor ever to run a Hollywood studio, Robert Evans
emerged from near-obscurity in the mid-1960s to rescue Paramount, one
of the great studios of the Golden Age, from near-bankruptcy. A
self-confessed "half-assed actor," Robert Evans
proved a genius producer and studio chief, drawing on his
irresistible combination of instinct, smarts, showmanship, and
bravado to take Paramount from the basement to the penthouse with
such films as The Odd Couple, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The
Godfather, and Chinatown. He lived a swashbuckling life, partying
with lifetime friends like Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Dustin
Hoffman, consulting with power players like Henry Kissinger, and
squiring a host of dazzling women including his wives Ali McGraw,
Catherine Oxenberg, and Phyllis George. After a decade of triumph, he
lost everything in a spectacular flameout of cocaine and bad business
decisions, yet survived it all — and lived to tell the tale.
An extraordinary raconteur, Robert Evans spares no one,
least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from
Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone, The Kid Stays in the
Picture is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing and
self-lacerating in equal measure.
This edition of The Kid Stays in the Picture
also features a new
foreword by the author.
What people say:
"The best Hollywood memoir
I've ever read." — Variety
"A naughty, outrageous, and
wild ride--and perhaps the best Hollywood memoir ever written."
— Publishers Weekly
"Don't even try to put it
down." — The New York Times
"Top
Three Greatest Hollywood Tell-Alls."
— Entertainment Weekly
"The book plays like a
raunchy, randy Hollywood fairy tale about a prince who lost it all
only to win it all back through pluck, charm, and persistence ... Is
it a good book? Try great. Enduring. One for the ages." —
The Onion
"[An]
incendiary and candid memoir."
— Huffington Post
About the Author:
Robert Evans was the chief of Paramount Studios in the
1960s and 1970s, and produced many of the most acclaimed and
successful films of all time, including The Godfather, Chinatown,
Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Marathon Man, and Urban Cowboy. He lives
in Beverly Hills.