Reading Who The Devil Made It

By Bogdanovich.

At least 2 of the directors' bios should be made into movies, Allen Dwan, Howard Hawks. Maybe Dwan even more--who thinks of a young director having to fight off a bloc of other studios trying to shoot--with a gun--his camera? But Clooney would be an ok Hawks, and would probably be a better movie than DiCaprio's pass at 50's great-man nostalgia in The Aviator. Hardest to get all the old famous people mimicked. (LA Confidential "That WAS Mamie Van Doren"? or someone like that.) (Fun to dismiss Aviator with 4 words when haven't even seen it.)

And the Bogdanovich story should be done/already has been?, with movies about Dorothy Stratten.

Much in book about guys who just did it. Had no real clue, opportunity was there, took it and worked quickly and without regret, stopping.

Dwan deep in his hatred of studio heads cutting people out when they become big. Actors, directors... Dwan himself ending up staying in a lady friend's little house and dying old and poor.