{"id":5493,"date":"2009-04-29T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2009-04-29T00:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T23:47:59","slug":"john-cleese-interviews-william-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/04\/29\/john-cleese-interviews-william-goldman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese interviews William Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ITVOn Sunday night I set my Freeview box<\/a> to record The South Bank Show<\/a> which featured screenwriter William Goldman<\/a><\/strong> talking about his career with Melvyn Bragg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just a few hours ago I sat down to catch up with it and 5 minutes in (as William and Melvyn were discussing the no-rules knife fight<\/a> in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/a>) it stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fact that the info display said the show was 837 minutes long indicated that not all was well in the bowells of my Freeview technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But surely ITV, with their all new, all singing, all dancing website<\/a>, would have it on demand?<\/p>\n

Er, no. Of course<\/em> they don’t.<\/p>\n

Can anyone at ITV explain why the most recent episode of their best arts programme is not available to see their website?<\/p>\n

But then again we could be talking about the same people who screwed up monetising the Susan Boyle viral video<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, in my post-South Bank Show funk I did come across a 1992 interview John Cleese<\/a><\/strong> did with Goldman that was broadcast on BBC Radio Five (or Radio 5<\/a> as it was called back then) in 1992.<\/p>\n

Here it is in 3 parts:<\/p>\n

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If you have never read them, Goldman’s two books about his career in Hollywood –\u00a0Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/a>\u00a0(1982) and\u00a0Which Lie Did I Tell?<\/a>\u00a0(2000)\u00a0– are essential reading.<\/p>\n

Both are filled with profound observations and juicy\u00a0anecdotes\u00a0about creating stories for the big screen and manage to avoid the usual I-did-this-and-they-did-that crap of certain memoirs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

> John Cleese<\/a> and William Goldman<\/a> at Wikipedia
\n> Guardian interview with Goldman by Joe Queenan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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