Tag Archives: The Bad and the Beautiful

Watching a Hollywood film from any given era doesn’t necessarily lend one a fair idea of how the industry felt about the state of the world; its point of view is often too buried beneath its own codes of morality and blinded by its idealism. Yet when it came to films about show business, Hollywood felt freer to serve the raw with the cooked: in 1952, for example, one could go the movies and get a pretty good sense of … Read More