Catherine Ohara

‘The Studio’ lampoons the Hollywood showbiz machine with a deep bench of stars

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“Millions are to be grabbed out here,” Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote Ben Hecht in 1926, “and your only competition is idiots.” Here was Hollywood, in particular the picture business, and Hecht, a former journalist and already the co-author of “The Front Page” and other plays, would take him up on it, writing or co-writing the … Read more

Catherine O’Hara has power, Kathryn Hahn wants money: ‘The Studio’ team tells all at SXSW

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AUSTIN, Texas — With an opening allusion to Robert Altman’s 1992 classic “The Player,” Apple TV+’s new comedy “The Studio” tees up an age-old subject — how the Hollywood sausage is made — for the 21st century. Starring Seth Rogen as put-upon studio head Matt Remick, who tries to balance his cinephilia with the demands of … Read more