![]() ![]() “Bill: This must be a complete secret - Lazar would have a brain seizure if he knew I let a copy out & he’s too good an agent to lose” In a box labeled by Wittliff with the title, author, and date of receipt, March 28, 1988. Copy of the manuscript (420 typed pages with many handwritten corrections) Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry as sent to McMurtry’s agent, Irving “Swifty” Lazar, and his editor at Simon and Schuster, Michael Korda. Inscribed as follows: “For Bill - My version of How a Star is Born” Paperback - some annotation made in black ink referring to the page numbers and on back cover written in black ink “Reviewed 8/23/88 - WDW”. one Advance Uncorrected Reader’s Proof of Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry -New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. The book is dedicated to Diane Keaton and her family, the Halls the Di-Annie in the title of the essay refers to Diane Keaton and the Mary Alice to her grandmother, Mary Alice hall. The last essay in Film Flam, “A Walk in Pasadena with Di-Annie and Mary Alice”, has not appeared in print before. ![]() ![]() Most of then were then anthologized in the book, Film Flam, published by Simon and Schuster in 1987. Materials relating to Larry McMurtry manuscripts, books, magazines, screenplays, galley proofs, and “American Film” magazines where McMurtry was a regular columnist for an extended period also in “New York” magazine and “Colonial Times” newspaper. Clete Shields Sculptures at The Wittliff.Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection. ![]()
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