In 'Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,' filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb illuminates the decades-long collaboration between the LBJ biographer and his editor, her father.
and Robert Gottlieb,” a spirited, revealing documentary that chronicles the successful yet necessarily private alliance between two literary titans as they methodically work toward the completion of Caro’s long-awaited fifth and final volume of his definitive Lyndon Johnson biographies.
A former newspaper reporter who still bangs out pages on his trusty Smith Corona Electra 210 typewriter, Caro, now 87, has forged a reputation on his painstakingly exhaustive approach to research that has earned the adjective “Caro-esque,” as represented by those first four “Years of Lyndon Johnson” volumes.How Lizzie Gottlieb got her legendary-editor father and Robert Caro to open up about 50 years of collaboration in her documentary, ‘Turn Every Page.
The project that first brought Caro and Gottlieb together in 1973 was the manuscript for “The Power Broker,” a commanding assessment of influential New York urban planner Robert Moses, which required a 350,000-word pruning in order to be contained in one volume without literally bursting the spine at the seams.
While the filmmaker wisely keeps the spotlight on her two intriguing subjects, she also mines keen insights from contemporaries and self-described fans, including Barack Obama; Caro’s longtime agent, Lynn Nesbit; Conan O’Brien; andMost illuminating are the observations provided by their wives, whose nuturing half-century-plus marriages to their work-obsessed husbands have seen Ina Caro agreeing to move the family to rural Hill County in Texas for three years for all that LBJ research, and...
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