GODS AND MONSTERS: THE STUDIO SUITS LAID THREADBARE
Love ’em or hate ’em, studio executives are an unavoidable part of the Hollywood filmmaking process, so producers, writers and directors have to learn to deal with them. Some regard “the suits” as helpful partners in that process. Others grumble that these very same folks do nothing but stand in the way, impede creativity and close doors.
OSCARS GONE WILD: EXPOSING THE ACADEMY’S MOST DUBIOUS CHOICES
alk about stamina. Oscar turns eighty this year, yet he still remains Hollywood’s most lusted-after octogenarian. By the time you’ve reached your eighth decade, however, some self-reflection seems in order, and for both the past …
A DECADE OF OSCAR: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE INEXPLICABLE
Long derided in some quarters as being too conservative, Oscar voters have for much of the last century shown their taste to be more out of whack than a Mike Leigh retrospective at a Des Moines multiplex. But at the close of the first decade of the new century, strange things have begun to develop among its 6,000-plus voting members — things like hipness, youthful attitudes and progressive thinking.