Hollywood

Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

Michael Koresky on the Influence of Catholic Moralism in the Early Days of American Film

 
By Michael Koresky  November 3, 2023
Hollywood

Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

By Landon Y. Jones  May 9, 2023
Hollywood

How On the Waterfront Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon

By David Thomson  February 7, 2023
Hollywood

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

By Ken Auletta  July 20, 2022
Hollywood

It’s an Honor Just to Be Asian: Sandra Oh on Systemic Racism in Hollywood

By Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang   March 7, 2022
Hollywood

Harvey Fierstein on the Best Late Night Hosts He Ever Worked With

By Harvey Fierstein  March 1, 2022
Hollywood

Will Smith Should’ve Been Our Rom-Com Hero

By Scott Meslow  February 2, 2022
Hollywood

Inside the Career of Tuesday Weld, a Hollywood “Poet of Failure”

By Matthew Specktor  July 28, 2021
Hollywood

The 2020 Oscar Nominations Prove That Hollywood Still Hasn’t Seen Through the Smoke

By Naomi McDougall Jones  February 7, 2020
Hollywood

Duke Haney on Gentrification, Golden Age Films, and Jim Morrison

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 6, 2019

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