During the silent-movie days, in an era before union rules and lax government regulation, actors, directors and film studios risked life and limb to get exciting scenes onto celluloid. It’s hard to describe the mindset in which cowboys would be willing to earn $10 a day to crash their horses (with the help of tripwires). […]
Sometime later this year, I hope to finish and release “Hollywood Gone Wild,” a follow-up to “Writers Gone Wild.” This is one of the stories that will appear in the book, about a movie that was one of the weirdest, and frankly freakiest, collaborations between Washington and Hollywood. Politics can make strange bedfellows sometimes, but […]
Quote: Do you know what moviemaking is? Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe only ten or twelve minutes, if you’re lucky, of real creation. And maybe they don’t come. Then you have to gear yourself for another eight hours and […]