Five Best: William Friedkin

... Elia Kazan doesn't spare himself. After he directed his first feature, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," he returned to New York: "I sat alone in my room in the Royalton Hotel . . . ," he writes, "and thought how worthless my life was. . . . It was just ...

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