When the supply is really limited – which used to happen occasionally in regional markets due to bad weather- the price of apples in say 1960 might have averaged three dollars a bushel wholesale in the south east due to a bumper crop. In 1961 the crop might have been half the size of ...
But William Friedkin’s true genius was his ability to straddle the worlds of intimate character-based filmmaking and popcorn spectacle, which left him equally suited to working in the blockbuster era. “To Live and Die in L.A.” saw him bringing his “French Connection” grit to the coke-...