These young people, quickly dubbed the New Hollywood, included those that form the aging mainstream of movies today. What happened next is the subject of Peter Biskind's ribald book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls." At the moment when the studios were looking for new filmmaking talent, an unwashed group of rebels waded ashore and began the process of taking the movies in a new direction. These men, some in the eighties, had no idea what the burgeoning hordes of young people born after the war were looking for. But, the geriatrics of Tinseltown who continued to make films like "The Sound of Music" and "Oliver" were not the folks to find a new formula. While ticket sales dropped, the cost of making movies did not, so consequently, the early sixties brought the studios to a crossroads. Once TV launched, movie attendance began to fall. Yet, even though the old hands stayed on, the audience for movies began to shrink after reaching a high water mark in 1946. What else could explain the incredibly long tenure of the executive corps that reigned over the pictures from just after their founding until the early sixties? For fifty years in some cases, the founders of Hollywood stayed on, and they, with their lieutenants, chose which movies got made, which stars glittered and which fell from the heavens.
Apparently, it is good to be a major Hollywood player.
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