William Goldman's highly opinionated mercilessly funny and tirelessly reported account of the 1967-68 season was and is the single best guide to how the theatre business works (and fails to work). Paperback Author/playwright Goldman spent the 1967-68 Broadway season getting mad. At the garish camp-following of Garland at the Palace at the phoney loud-mouthed "ad libs" of double-billed. Buddy Hackett and Eddie Fisher at the fact that George C. Scott couldn't communicate with  Burl Ives and had to leave the show he was directing at "critic's darlings" like Sandy Dennis at tawdry musical blockbusters corrupt ticket agencies big bad boy producers and first and foremost and above all - critics!  "I think Clive Barnes is the most dangerous the most crippling critic in modern Broadway history and I only hope he is dispensed with before these words reach print." Brendan Gill is "really beyond belief" and they are all "failures in life." Mr. Goldman backs his exaggerated views with some undeniably strong examples of abysmal reviewing He is also on and behind the scenes interviewing listening to the audience foraging for vital statistics It's a Herculean hodgepodge trampling on the toes of the magnificent invalid which for this Season should have stayed in bed.
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