From American Heritage, a look at how Louis B. Mayer invented a Hollywood Dream Machine. A review of Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty and Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image by Harlow Robinson. A code is born: A look at how Catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history. From Slate, the man who did it all — or so he'd have you believe: Does Hitchcock get too much credit? A review of Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal. A review of I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You by Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Will Russell, and Scott Shuffitt.
