Book review - "The Thing of It Is" by William Goldman

 Goldman talked about his attempts to make a movie of this in his memoirs. It didn't sound like much of a movie - a successful songwriter who doesn't like the hit musical he wrote, and who is secretly Jewish. And... And that's about it. The plot has him and his wife go to Europe with their little kid. They visit London then leave the kid with a nanny (!) then go to Venice. They bicker. It's hard to care. He's three dimensional but she's one dimensional - Goldman was never that great on women and there's a lot of talk about the wife's small breasts. She has a bitch other. Two main sequences - an argument over a missing doll and a confrontation about an alleged stolen watch. I would have preferred the action focused on writing the musical. Easy to read, mind.