As a high-rolling Paramount producer, Robert Evans was responsible for a handful of major Hollywood hits, including "Love Story" and "The Godfather". His bad-boy lifestyle was a gift to the gossip columnists. In the 1980s however, his cocaine habit led to penury, two criminal charges (one for conspiracy to murder) and self-commital to a mental institution. Now, having hit rock bottom, he is beginning to bounce back: he is producing films again and has regained some of the Tinsel Town status symbols, among them the house ...
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As a high-rolling Paramount producer, Robert Evans was responsible for a handful of major Hollywood hits, including "Love Story" and "The Godfather". His bad-boy lifestyle was a gift to the gossip columnists. In the 1980s however, his cocaine habit led to penury, two criminal charges (one for conspiracy to murder) and self-commital to a mental institution. Now, having hit rock bottom, he is beginning to bounce back: he is producing films again and has regained some of the Tinsel Town status symbols, among them the house once owned by Garbo and the services of a butler. An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no-one, least of all himself. From Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone, here is Hollywood revealed by the producer who's seen and done it all.
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