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Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.

With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture is driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel.

An extraordinary raconteur, 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: A Notorious Life is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure.

This is a must-read for fans of American cinema and classics of the canon, including The Odd Couple, Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown.

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“The best Hollywood memoir I’ve ever read!” — Michael Fleming, 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.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times

“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.” — Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club

“[An] incendiary and candid memoir.” — Huffington Post

Top Three Greatest Hollywood Tell-Alls — Entertainment Weekly

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Robert Evans's The Kid Stays in the Picture 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, 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," 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, 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 new It Books edition, the first in more than a decade, will feature a new foreword by the author. And simultaneous with this edition will come a first-ever ebook rollout—including both a regular edition and an enhanced ebook with clips from Evans's celebrated, Grammy-nominated audiobook and the famous 2002 documentary.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ It Books; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 568 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062228323
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062228321
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.94 x 9 inches

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- #647 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
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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, Marathon Man, and Urban Cowboy. He has been the inspiration for characters played by Robert Vaughn in S. O. B. and Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog. He lives in Beverly Hills, CA, in the estate known as Woodland, once owned by Greta Garbo.
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Marinka Peschmann has peaceful solutions to combat the fake news crisis and fix real problems.
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Marinka is a ghostwriter, author, journo, and consultant. She has collaborated, ghostwritten, and contributed to books, film treatments, and stories from showbiz and celebrities to true crime, education, U.S. politics, and the United Nations.
She sued some Pizzagate and Sandy Hook hoax people for defamation and related counts before Pizzagate & QAnon were a thing.
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Check out the latest "How to Legal" and other ways to use the good side of the Internet to combat the dark side at: marinkapeschmann.com.
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J. P. Becker

Legendary Hollywood stuff!

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023

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Evans is a serious operator, and weaver of his tales. You get to meet and spend time with a ton of movie stars and moviemakers, like Jack Nicholson (a lot), and other secrets, like the time Lois Chiles (Moonraker) came to Evans's house to meet him and have sex with him so he'd put her in his next movie.
And even the story of where "The kid stays in the picture" line comes from is awesome.

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Robert Evans, I had heard about him via the gossip rags all related to one woman or another, nothing positive, mind you. It wasn't until Liz Smith spoke so knowingly of his auto biography that it rang any real interest. The book is twenty years old, and doesn't really ring any bells but it does read well.

He takes us from his birth and young days of a supportive and loving family. He wanted to go to an entertainment high school, but had to settle for a school near the bad side of town to show he could do anything and win. He started as a two bit actor, model, salesman of certain things, meeting the high and the low. The low, including the mobsters are glossed over, but the feel is that they were a lot more involved. His time as an actor in Hollywood sounds like he was the biggest star known, but, of course, not. Maybe some of the drugs inhaled over the years went to the brain. At any point, it sounds like he made it with every actress known to man, and, maybe so.

He names names, his wife, Ali MacGraw, who left him for another man, Phyllis George, another wife who left him, fourteen women in all, all now rich, he attributes to him. Politicos were many, even Henry Kissinger, who interrupted an important political event to be by his side. What did he gave on these guys? It is said he was to be part of Heidi Fleiss's trial for prostitution. It is an interesting portion of the book, but, I think represents exactly his above board ego. He is a great writer, but did he write this all himself?

He was a big man behind the scenes in Hollywood, without him, 'The Godfather' and 'Chinatown' would not have been made. A few stories from those films, but not enough to keep us interested. He gave away a little, but not much, which makes me wonder, if what he has is so big that he could not stay in thus town if revealed. What does come out, is the over powering ego, not to my liking, but, then, this is his book.

Recommended For The History. prisrob 01-27-14

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An interesting read.

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This book was clearly written by Joe Ezsterhas for Robert Evans ... It reads very similar to Ezsterhas' own memoir Hollywood Animal which was written years later.

It is a very interesting and self excoriating account from Bob Evans' own mouth about how he became one of Hollywood's most influential players ... Ever.

Having known many people who worked with Bob Evans during his time at the top of the Hollywood food chain, this book humanizes him and shows a softer side than you will hear from those who were actually in the trenches which Evans commanded. To say that Evans lived a life of decadence is the mildest of understatements. While the book dishes the dirt ... Some of it reads as though a Public Relations firm put it together to soften the edges of one of the most hedonistic 'carnal-vores' ever to roam The Hollywood Hills.

For fans of 1960s-1970s film, this tells a lot of the stories behind such pictures as Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, etc. It does a good job of showing just how many problems a producer has to deal with and includes a bevy of characters such as Dustin Hoffman, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Sidney Korshak and a ton of executives who were once the kings of Hollywood and household names bigger than Coke or Pepsi but now mean nothing to those who weren't there at the time.

Evans may not be as relevant as he was to the scene but the man was responsible for saving Paramount, making some of the best known movies in history and (by his own accounts) bedding some of Tinseltown's top starlets.

This is a page turner. While Evans does tend to self depricate ... I am sure there are other sides to every story. The thing that most surprised me about the book is that while Evans is a shamess self promoter and horn blower, the book doesn't seem to brag as much as I thought it would. Instead it tells the tale of Hollywood excess and the often clichéd, 'Be careful what you wish for as you might actually get it' line.

I can't say that I'd ever want to be married to or related to Bob Evans after reading the book ... But I wouldn't mind him advising my career if even half of the producing stories he tells are accurate.

This is a great read and I'd recommend it to
anyone who even has a remote interest in the inner workings of Hollywood.

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A great read!

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2023

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This is a book that you don’t want to put down or have it end! If you liked watching “The Offer” about the making of “The Godfather” you will love reading about Robert Evans.

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Mike

Great read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023

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Thoroughly enjoyed the pace of his storytelling and how real he got. Definitely earned the awards his autobiography got. Robert Evans tells the story only he could. Can't wait to listen to him read the audiobook!

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A Star-Studded Life

Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2020

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This engrossing book tells the story of Robert Evans who started out as a not-too-succesful actor and wound up as the head of Paramount Pictures, turning out some of the their top box office hits in the 1970's. Evans rubbed elbows with and became friends with the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Roman Polanski and famed Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak. This is a fast-paced story of a wheeler dealer who knew how to schmooze with the best of them and was able to get the right stars for the right movies. Then came the 1980's and cocaine and the unraveling of Evans' world. Even so, he was able to climb back up on top once again. His life was a roller coaster ride and you will not be bored. A fascinating book.

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Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2017

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Thoroughly enjoyed this read.
An extraodinary life, well told, and interesting in every way.
Lots of good 'inside' story's from the Hollywood of yesteryear. ( 1940's to the 80/90's )
Quite an interesting life, and seems to be fairly honest in the recollections.
If the older period of Hollywood, as mentioned above, and the movie business
is of interest, then i would think most would enjoy reading.

Bootsy

Is it the truth? Who knows?!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2019

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An extremely informative book about a fascinating period in cinema history. Note that it should also be read with Easy Riders, Raging Bulls for another perspective. As Evans says himself, there's your version, someone else's version and then there's the truth. And I get the feeling that his version of the truth might not be too accurate sometimes:)

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Birdy

Absolutely brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2017

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A really brilliant book. You won't want to put it down. What a life Robert Evans led and he retells it here in great style. Brilliant stories, fascinating behind the scenes insight. Also left me thinking what a great guy Jack Nicholson is, we could all do with a friend like him. Couldn't recommend this more, if you've not read it and have any remote interest in movies, or indeed simply biographies, buy this book

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