Highly entertaining series of faxes between two old mates and collaborators. The films that get most attention are their specific projects, Black Robe and Paradise Road; there's probably a little too much on the latter film, as there was in Milliken's memoirs, come to think of it, but I get she's proud of the achievement.
The banter is rapid and fun and enjoyably bitchy at times - enjoying Tony Ginane's financial trouble. Miliken says in her intro she wanted to show how hard they worked and they do, I guess, but life it still pretty good - they're zipping around all over the place, and Beresford has a great life (he's always off skiing and hanging out with famous people).
The period covers 1989 to 1997 so basically an optimistic time - FFC, Fox Studios, etc. Beresford was coming off Black Robe a critical darling. During this period he made his worst movie a Good Man in Africa and had some bad knocks (getting booted off Bridges of Madison County) but we don't read that much about it. I would have liked more but understand maybe Milliken wasn't as across those projects.
Still, a charming fun read.
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