How The Hollywood Formula Began
"If you want the human embodiment of Hollywood predictability, you can't do better than Wycliffe A. Hill. A profoundly obscure writer of silent five-reelers, Hill is also the unheralded inventor of something more enduring: the attempt to engineer movies that will bring "the most satisfaction to the largest number of people--the mob, in other words." Slate 07/06/09

Posted July 6, 2009 07:21 AM