{"id":14188,"date":"2020-03-12T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/the-kid-stays-in-the-picture\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:20:17","slug":"the-kid-stays-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/the-kid-stays-in-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kid Stays in the Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Evans&#8217;s <em>The Kid Stays in the Picture<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;half-assed actor,&#8221; 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 <em>The Odd Couple<\/em>, <em>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/em>, <em>Love Story<\/em>, <em>The Godfather<\/em>, and <em>Chinatown<\/em>. 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\u2014and lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>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, <em>The Kid Stays in the Picture<\/em> is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing and self-lacerating in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014including both a regular edition and an enhanced ebook with clips from Evans&#8217;s celebrated, Grammy-nominated audiobook and the famous 2002 documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Evans&#8217;s The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14188","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}