Training Hacks and Whores for Hollywood

Shakespeare was right all along

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Years ago I was invited by my undergrad alma mater, Harpur College (that’s how they spell it) at Binghamton University, to lecture on screenwriting.

“Frankly,” the dean cautioned me, “the Cinema majors are not likely to attend your presentation. They regard UCLA as too commercial,” he said, “too Hollywood. They’re…