“There are no young people in Hollywood,” Polanski had grumbled in 1964. By 1967, that had changed. Bonnie and Clyde, which opened that year, was a watershed; it ushered into Hollywood an era of hot blood, fresh sex, and violence, and introduced a vision of America—less romantic, more realistic—that would change the game and the players, pervading the movie industry and thus the city of Los Angeles. “The change has come with startling speed,” wrote Peter Bart. “Hollywood, a town traditionally dominated by old men, has been but taken over by ‘young turks.’ The big deal and the big news are
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* its like these young guus were called up from Central Casting for a movement no one was in charge of. Like Gates and Jobs for computers and Vanderbilt for the rise of railroads
