On November 19, 1979, Harry Nilsson attended a party hosted by Robert Evans at Bistro Restaurant in Beverly Hills celebrating the publication of Alexander Walker's book The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay. Among the other attendees were Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Elliot Gould, Barbara Carrera, Susan Anspach, Charles Champlin, Raquel Welch, James Caan, Robert Towne, Berthe Jourdan, and Louis Jourdan.

 

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Alexander Walker (23 March 1930 – 15 July 2003) was a British film critic who wrote for the London Evening Standard from 1960 to the end of his life. He wrote 20 books.