Wordsmiths on Celluloid

Over at Hullabaloo (digby's place) Dennis Hartley has a nice post on films which feature writers, which I recommend. It's resonating more strongly for me than it otherwise might, because I've been reading a collection of John Gregory Dunne's nonfiction, much of which centers on his work as a Hollywood screenwriter. Dunne's take is interesting because he acknowledges the venality and idiocy of studio heads without then assuming that writers are paragons of virtue and rectitude. Not a common perspective on the subject. Anyway--if you're interested in both film and literature, Hartley's post is a good'un.