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