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Cinema: Industry & Art

What's wrong with the movies? Last week two Hollywood experts gave contradictory opinions:

The Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson, who often picks up views lying around in the industry's top (or second) drawer, announced: "During the past five or six years our production efforts have been just too damned arty. We've been shooting over the heads of our ticket buyers and . . . audiences have not been happy . . . because, seemingly, our producers forgot all about their tastes . . .

"What's happened to Hollywood? . . . What inspired the effort...

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