The Way They Were by Robert Hofler

Robert Hofler has spent more than forty years as an entertainment journalist, having worked as entertainment editor of Life and executive editor of Us magazine, and most recently at Variety, where he was a theater reporter and senior editor for fifteen years. His nonfiction works include the Henry Willson biography, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, Variety's The Movie That Changed My Life, and Party Animals, a biography of Allan Carr. Hofler is the theater critic for The Wrap and lives in New York City.