The Squawk book club: The Kids Stays in the Picture
Live Chat discussion of Robert Evans’ autobiography, 'The Kids Stays in the Picture'
Welcome to the second meeting of The Squawk book club! This time we’re discussing Robert Evans’ autobiography, The Kids Stays in the Picture. Evans lived what you might call A Life, starting out as an actor in the 1950s studio system to running Paramount during its renaissance in the early 1970s, a renaissance he ignited with essentially just his taste and gut instinct for a good script.
But by the 1980s his name was ignominious, a cocaine bust and the Cotton Club murder trial making him into a tabloid fixture and a Hollywood pariah. His famous friends rallied, and in the 1990s he experienced a career rebirth, fueled in part by this autobiography. Evans is a larger-than-life Hollywood fixture, the kind of rags-to-riches tale (at leas thrice over) people love but also enjoying a career path that has never existed for anyone else. It’s impossible to reproduce the circumstances that made Robert Evans an unlikely mogul, though the forces that brought him down are all too common…
