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Son of an agent, he became a film exec. But the movies weren’t the same
Matthew Specktor grew up around celebrities during an era of bold filmmaking — only to see safe franchises dominate and ...
The Son of a Superagent Finds His Way in a Tarnished Hollywood
In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a ...
My Mother, the Hollywood Scab
Katherine Specktor never wanted to be a screenwriter, so she didn't see the furious backlash coming when she crossed the WGA ...
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The son of a legendary agent tells the story of a vanished Hollywood
Scott Fitzgerald, shipwrecked and alcoholic at 44, washed up in the movie business, had stood from his chair and died. In “The Golden Hour,” Specktor more fully reveals himself and his family ...
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The Golden Hour
THE GOLDEN HOUR is a universal story of three men (each in his way an outsider) who share the same dream of winning an Olympic gold medal; a dream almost no one thinks them capable of achieving ...