The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture

By Robert Evans
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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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  1. ShortNFuzzy
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    Robert Evans is Cray Cray

    I admit I got this audio book merely because I had heard the rumor of the "insane" delivery and writing. It's a sort of legendary audio book because of the way that Robert Evans writes and reads it. (Patton Oswalt, rather famously riffed on it in one of his stand up specials). Objectively speaking...yeah...it's pretty weird. Robert Evans went from a matinee idol to studio head very quickly, very early. And he INSISTS on telling you how much he enjoyed himself...ad nauseum. To be fair, he also produced some of the most legendary films of all time, so that libertine lifestyle seemed to work for him. In regards to Mr. Evans narration...well...his voice is deep and gravelly with a thick New York accent. The updated prologue has a "new" narration and this is that same voice, 15 years later and after a stroke. Frankly, I enjoyed this... but wow you have to be in the mood for it.

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