Hooray for Hollywood
Timeless stories from our 173-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
The End of Hollywood As We Know It?
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Read Daniel Bessner’s cover story, then explore the Harper’s archives for more Hollywood history.
Read “The Life and Death of Hollywood”
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“He explained to me that this visit to Hollywood was strictly business, because he needed the money badly.”
Read “Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood” by Dwight Taylor
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“Movie money, like movie behavior, has a set of rules and values all its own.”
Read “Rebellion in Hollywood" by Ernest Borneman
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“It is for our generation an almost incredible experience to watch the beginnings and development of a wholly new art...Good luck to Hollywood.”
Read “The High Kingdom of the Movies” by Harrison Rhodes
100+ Students Arrested at Pro-Palestine Protest at Columbia University
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“And maybe the students’ impulse to cast their professors as part of an older generation that is complicit with enduring patterns of injustice is likewise understandable.”
Read “Common Cause” by Alix Rule
Tribulations of a Trump Trial
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On the mental health effects of being a juror.
Read ”Trials and Their Tribulations” by Stanley M. Kaplan and Carolyn Winger
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A juryman on the ridiculousness of juries.
Read “Just How Stupid Are Juries?”
UK Weighs Raising Legal Smoking Age Every Year Until No One is Old Enough for a Cigarette
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Notes of a “redeemed smoker.”
Read “From Beyond the Cigarette” by John Hollander
The Daniel Bessner cover story is really amazing in detailing the life of film/tv writers over time. I included a commentary of it in my latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/stanleynolan/p/wicked-little-la-chimera-weekly-reel?r=7d2b&utm_medium=ios :)