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This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama
But she's short on drive. What she has is high ... You see, for all of Specktor's verve, The Golden Hour tells a story of diminution, about the loss of youthful hopes, the corporatization of ...
The Washington Post1mon
The son of a legendary agent tells the story of a vanished Hollywood
In “The Golden Hour,” Specktor more ... critiquing his short stories with X-ray precision. Baldwin told him that one story was beautiful but that “the question is whether beauty is enough.” ...
Los Angeles Times1mon
Matthew Specktor looks back at a Hollywood childhood and film exec past in a bittersweet memoir
Specktor opens the story on the cusp ... strangeness a few short years ago, but now are crammed with spaceships and sharks?” Specktor queries. “The Golden Hour” is an attempt to preserve ...
The New York Times1mon
A Hollywood Memoir Spiked With Drama and Melancholy
THE GOLDEN HOUR: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood ... meticulously until I can almost understand him but fall short.” “The Golden Hour” has an appropriately retro, hard-boiled ...
Wall Street Journal1mon
My Dad Is a Top Hollywood Agent. But He Started at the Bottom.
Who’s in, who’s out? The movies—and the movie business—will ask this question over and over, but in 1956 Fred Specktor is out. He doesn’t know anybody in the film industry. His own ...