{"id":543,"date":"2001-09-22T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2001-09-22T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=543"},"modified":"2001-09-22T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2001-09-22T15:18:12","slug":"synchronicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/22\/synchronicity.html","title":{"rendered":"Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading <\/a>William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade<\/a>, his autobiography\/expose of his screenwriting career<\/a>. It’s really a good book — a bit dated as far as names go, but still an entertaining description of how Hollywood works. <\/p>\n

So over the last few days I’ve been reading the section of the book on Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid<\/i><\/a>, a movie I’ve never seen. <\/p>\n

And this morning, on the History Channel<\/a> — an examination of the movie from an historical perspective.<\/p>\n

That goes right along with my earlier this week having read his section on the making of A Bridge Too Far<\/i><\/a> and then running across, also on the History Channel, a “History’s Blunders” on Operation Market-Garden.<\/p>\n

Weird.<\/p>\n

(Actually, what’s weird was that I read the screenplay, knowing Robert Redford and Paul Newman starred, but not knowing who played which role. I got it the wrong way around, which made seeing some film clips of the actual movie — a bit surreal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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