In The Weekly Standard, Sonny Bunch reviews some recent books about Hollywood. An excerpt:
Great acting and huge stardom are not exactly linked. The recently deceased Philip Seymour Hoffman, arguably one of the great actors of the last 20 years, didn’t put audiences in seats. His last, and possibly best, film, A Most Wanted Man, will earn less in its entire run than a movie about a talking tree and a snarky raccoon earned in its opening 24 hours. As compelling as he was, Hoffman wasn’t a star, at least not in the classic sense. Not in the sense that James Harvey means in his Watching Them Be. Not in the sense of John Wayne.
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