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...life-changing electives in the VES department, the Core, and even advice for any student’s future after graduation. The Harvard Crimson: This is your first film with a big studio like Warner Bros. How is the transition from independent funding to working with a major Hollywood studio?Darren Aronofsky: Well, I felt the same. One advantage of Hollywood everyone overlooks is that the people that help with the money for films have done this for a long time. And they know a lot about film, so it is great to have their input...
...When Brooks did return to Hollywood, most of the town considered her anathema. Wellman did supposedly offer the role eventually taken by Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy, but Brooks says she turned it down. Instead, she made a Grade-Z short, Windy Riles Goes Hollywood, directed by the disgraced Fatty Arbuckle, then made a few more furtive, insultingly small appearances in movies. Sometimes her scenes were cut out of the film. She ended her career staring up at Wayne in Overland Stage Raiders and seemingly out of her element, her refeened voice clashing with the homey cliches...
...That story, with minor alterations, could fit many women, perhaps most of them, who have come to Hollywood with dreams of stardom that never materialize. But if that were all there was to say about Louise Brooks, we would not be celebrating her centenary today. The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco would not be holding "Happy Birthday, Louise" party to accompany a performance of Lulu, a play based on her signature film Pandora's Box. The Criterion Collection would not be issuing a double-disc edition of the Pandora's Box DVD. And Rizzoli would not have published Louise Brooks...
...busied herself in research on silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...
...called home by Paramount. Talkies had come in, and the studio needed to loop and reshoot some scenes for sound. She refused. That snapped it. Paramount hired actress Margaret Livingstone to dub her dialogue, and Brooks had sassed herself onto a blacklist. She had often expressed her contempt for Hollywood, and soon the town would return that sour flavor. She was always a handful, making enemies of the showgirls she worked with and, I suspect, having little control over the booze she loved. Augusto Genina, who directed her in Prix de beaut?, wrote in his memoirs that she drank...