How Texas Ate Hollywood

A daring Lone Star choice to steal business from California

Here’s my feature in The Spectator:

When Dennis Quaid dropped out of the University of Houston to pursue his acting dreams, there was nowhere to go but Hollywood. Coming off a decade of its biggest hits and at the height of critical acclaim for the movies of the 1970s, California dominated the culture of the United States, and therefore the world. “It wa…