Robert Evans’s Legendary Memoir Captures an Epic Hollywood Rise and Fall

“When your back’s against the wall,” legendary Paramount studio head Robert Evans liked to say, “the impossible is possible.”

In 1994, Evans published The Kid Stays in the Picture, one of the most entertaining Hollywood memoirs of all time. Writing like the gangsters and gamblers he admired (and resembled), the wily, passionate producer, studio head, and actor tells the story of a life more melodramatic and topsy-turvy than many of his famous films. And Evans was responsible for so…