Hollywood’s great re-awakening seems at hand. Sort of.The cameras are rolling, the theaters are opening, the wannabe blockbusters have nailed new playdates.
Even Bob Iger last week revealed his exit date, marking his kingdom’s new era.But when the curtains rise, will the audience applaud?Paradoxically, I was reading a new book this week that posed a metaphor for the Hollywood moment.
Titled Shooting Midnight Cowboy, the book by Glenn Frankel portrayed the shadow of doom hovering over a movie about to start shooting 50 years ago.
Its young director, John Schlesinger, was semi-suicidal because the critics had just savaged his latest picture. With Cowboy, had he again chosen the wrong cast and the wrong setting?His studio seemed to share the
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