During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic d?marche.
Source: On how young writers felt about writing screenplays, A Writer Stalks the Hollywood Myth, in NY Times, 6 Jan 85
-- Frederic Raphael, (Aug 14 1931-____), English novelist, screenwriter; He is best known for After the War, and California Time.