The first group to go on strike in Hollywood this year has been the Writers Guild of America, comprising screenwriters. For every successful writer, there were hundreds who failed or felt cheated and excluded. In 1994, Jorja Prover, an anthropologist who studied Hollywood, wrote, “… the writers were seen as essential but unremarkable." Faulkner apart from being a novelist was quite a successful screenwriter at Hollywood. So Gable says to him, “Oh, do you write, Mr. Faulkner?” Faulkner replies, “Yeah.

Source: The Telegraph July 23, 2023 11:38 UTC