Hanson O’Haver
Broken Records | Hollywood’s Music Biopic Formula
Hanson O’Haver
It can be tough to remember now, but there was once a time when people had to outgrow superheroes. Fortunately, for generations of kids entering puberty, there was another place to turn for flashy costumes, goofy nicknames, personal logos, and childhood hardships channeled into special abilities by beloved figures who played by their own rules: rock ’n’ roll. When “famous musician” replaced “Batman” as the answer to the question “What...
But What I Really Want to Do Is Write! | The Year of the Auteur Novel
Hanson O’Haver
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote. She also wrote, with her husband, more than twenty screenplays in order to make money. The couple was hardly alone: from the early days of Hollywood, literary figures like Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Brecht took a swing at the pictures. More recent efforts have come from Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, and...
