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Article: Serfs of cinema: independent producers make film about lives of Hollywood assistants.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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When Budd Schulberg wrote "What Makes Sammy Run" six decades ago, little did he realize that his classic Hollywood character, Sammy Glick, would become a role model for future generations of young studio executives.
"(Schulberg's book has) become the bible," said Terry Keefe, a former Hollywood assistant and independent filmmaker.
Keefe and his partner Michael Wechsler, also a former Hollywood assistant, have created then' own version of Sammy Glick: a character named Roman Sofine, who is at the center of their low-budget black comedy, "Slaves of Hollywood."
The film is a docudrama about twentysomething Hollywood assistants, a group that flies ...