Studio Wars

Studio WarsHollywood, as if caught in a self-reflective time warp, staged a massive retromaneuver in 1986: While on screen the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was leaving its heart in 20th Century San Francisco and Peggy Sue was once again losing hers at the high school prom, the movie industry was taking its own detour back to the future. Even Top Gun, the top-grossing movie of the year, with $172,000,000 in its flight plan, played like a high-tech remake of the 1927 silent film Wings, the first...