Dustin Hoffman looking at Anne Bancroft's leg in "The Graduate," one of the films that vied for the Academy Award for best picture of 1967. (The Associated Press)
- Pictures at a Revolution Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood By Mark Harris490 pages. $27.95, The Penguin Press; £20, Canongate.
On July 4, 1965, Jane Fonda and her husband-to-be, Roger Vadim, had a party in their oceanfront home in Malibu and brought together, probably for the first time, old Hollywood and what would come to be known as the new Hollywood. Henry Fonda roasted a pig on one side of the house while the Byrds, hired by his son, Peter, played on the other. The guest list ran from William Wyler and Sam Spiegel to the then barely employed Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper. Lucky attendees might have glimpsed Sidney Poitier and Gene Kelly instructing Vadim's little girl in tap-dancing, or Darryl Zanuck and George Cukor staring dumbstruck at a barefoot hippie nursing her baby... [By Jim Shepard, International Herald Tribune, February 15, 2008]
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