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Striking Out

From “Hollywood on the Line,” which appeared in the January 1984 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. Union politics…

The Life and Death of Hollywood

by Daniel Bessner,

Film and television writers face an existential threat

Ouagadougou nights

by Christopher Vourlias,

Art house meets Nollywood at Africa's greatest film festival

That’s entertainment

by Harper’s Staff,

Bambi v. Godzilla

by David Mamet,

Why art loses in Hollywood

The Spielberg formula

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Lauren Greenfield,

In defense of the megafilm

by David Twohy,

When actors think really, really hard

by Eric Stoltz, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Modine,

The importance of opening big

by Harper’s Staff,

The New Auteurs

by Mark Gill, Jeffrey Godsick, Bob Israel, Joe Nimziki,Edited by Paul Tough,

How Hollywood publicists and ad execs get a turkey to fly

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Striking Out

The Life and Death of Hollywood

Ouagadougou nights

That’s entertainment

Bambi v. Godzilla

The Spielberg formula

Readings

In defense of the megafilm

When actors think really, really hard

The importance of opening big

The New Auteurs

June 1993

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