William Goldman is a Hollywood screenwriter, who famously wrote in his memoir “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” that “nobody knows anything.” Aside from his movies – “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Princess Bride,” “Misery,” - this quote may be his most enduring legacy. What Goldman was referring to, was the often unexplainable and unpredictable nature of Hollywood blockbusters. That surefire hit movies often bomb at the box office, while unloved or overlooked screenplays become enduring classics. That no matter what a Hollywood executive tells you about a movie's potential, they simply don't know anything.The real genius of the quote, is it's adaptability. Nobody knows anything in Hollywood, nobody knows anything in the financial markets, nobody knows anything about the weather and nobody knows anything about fantasy sports. The news today, that Troy Tulowitzki needs arthroscopic surgery on his left groin and likely faces 8 weeks on the DL, just reinforces G...
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June 19, 2012
