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In this excited love-hate notice to the film industry, Peter Bart pulls jointly his best columns from Variety and GQ, outlining in detail the history and interior workings of Hollywood. In tale after tale, Bart shows the way the major studios have diverted their energies from development of the shrewdly crafted pictures that once made the industry powerful. There are just a handful of salable themes in the films today: natural disasters, aliens, dinosaurs, spirits, monsters, or any combo thereof. All are themes easily parlayed into theme-park surroundings, action figures, video games, and clothing lines. Even the once edgy independent makers like Miramax and New Series have been received by conglomerates. Who and what will resurrect Hollywood? Peter Bart gets the answers.
