Commerce Versus Creativity — Which To Choose?

A true Hollywood false dichotomy

Image credit: The Rolling Stones

As I have written elsewhere and earlier, in the late summer of 1977, at a glitzy, glamorous, celebrity-studded party at a Malibu beach house, I was invited to join the faculty at the UCLA film school.

I was busy at the time writing feature length screenplay assignments for the studios, and had managed also…