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Writer Ben Hecht’s entertaining 1938 Hollywood satire The Goldwyn Follies is the first Technicolor film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and the last film score written by George Gershwin. Directors George Marshall and (uncredited) H C […]
Writer-director James L Brooks’s 1994 romantic comedy drama I’ll Do Anything went awry and was a troubled production. It was made as a musical until test audiences rejected it, and the last-minute cutting has damaged […]
Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Larry Hagman, Shelley Winters and Loretta Swit are among the choice cast in Blake Edwards’s biting 1981 Hollywood satire S.O.B. Writer-director Blake Edwards […]
Director Christopher Guest’s winning 1988 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as award-winning film school graduate Nick Chapman, who arrives at the office of horrible movie boss Allen Habel (J T Walsh) desperate to make […]
Director Frank Tashlin’s 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust is the final Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis movie together. Sadly, it is a feeble satirical farce on life in Hollywood, in which Martin plays the broke singer Steve Wiley, […]
The polished 1965 Hollywood satire drama film Inside Daisy Clover stars a fine team in Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, and Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon, who won Golden Globes. Reputedly Robert Redford did not want […]
Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]
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