A day in the life of the head of a fictitious Hollywood studio in 1951. The male star is kidnapped by communist writers.
Amusing satire which derives mainly from two disconnected elements: the phrase "they just happen to be Jewish" (the context is provided by Joel Stein's article) and a gossip in Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars regarding a favor granted by Julius Caesar in his youth to king Nicomedes IV (read about this and other related stuff here). The former of these elements is driven to its last consequences in the form of a studio head who is a Catholic. The latter is straightforwardly transposed to the Hollywood universe.
Rating: 70
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