Category: Hollywood
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Burn, Hollywood, burn! Four noirs reveal the horrors of the screenwriting trade
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, ‘In a Lonely Place’ (1950). You’ve probably heard that screenwriters get little respect in the big town, and by many accounts that’s true. They labor in isolation, punching out fresh ideas, pouring their deepest emotions onto their pages only to have their hearts broken. Their masterpieces are rewritten by faceless studio…
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When Tinsel Town Turns the Camera on Itself
Rod Steiger, ‘The Big Knife’ (1955). Face it, scandals make good news copy and the Los Angeles entertainment industry produces a bumper crop of the stuff that keeps gossip writers in business. From Rosco “Fatty” Arbuckle to Harvey Weinstein the press has never been at a loss for words when it comes to movie industry…
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Hazy Memories of Hollywood
Brad Pitt and Mike Moh, ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Ever since it hit the screen in 2019 there’s been a lot of talk about Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood,” especially the fight scene between stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) and martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee (Mike Moh).…