Introduction by Richard Brody. Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, and wrote on filmmakers regularly over the course of her extraordinary career. Beginning with âCome In, Lassie!â, a 1948 report on Hollywoodâs reaction to HUAC through a 2001 visit to the set of Wes Andersonâs The Royal Tenenbaums, Ross covered the people who make the movies with singular insight and humor. Rossâ lengthiest pieces, about Otto Preminger fighting against the television broadcast of Anatomy of a Murder in 1966, and Francis Ford Coppola preparing for the release of One from...
Introduction by Richard Brody. Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, and wrote on filmmakers regularly over the course ...