In “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

You find that in The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood, a new book by Matthew Specktor, a child of the movies who happens to be a really terrific writer. Spanning more than ...

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 ...

The logline for Matthew Specktor’s memoir, “The Golden Hour,” could easily imply a Hollywood tell-all. Specktor is the son of a well-connected movie agent, Fred Specktor, which meant he had ...