We need a break from all this disaster, don't we? Well, I do. To clear our minds, here's a note about the encounter of a couple of famous writers, who maybe should have gotten along, but didn't. In the l940's, while working for M-G-M on a Lana Turner picture that never happened, young TennesseeContinue reading “When Tennessee met Christopher (Isherwood, that is)”
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American Have-Nots: Too poor to afford Hollywood?
The collapse in revenue generated by the entertainment business has analysts thinking deeply: The anemic economy…is widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, making it tougher for some consumers to justify paying for cable or tossing a new DVD into the shopping cart. "Right now it is a tale of two cities," [Craig]Continue reading “American Have-Nots: Too poor to afford Hollywood?”
Hollywood is Forever
Many years ago, a young student director named Marty Brest made a self-financed movie as a fellow at the American Film Institute called "Hot Tomorrows." The plot cannot be synopsized, but the climax was unforgettable, as the young searcher standing in for Brest himself looked high and low for the meaning of Hollywood, in mortuaries,Continue reading “Hollywood is Forever”
Kit Stolz 