EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE GROSS

I recently finished Peter Bart’s “The Gross,” an examination of Hollywood in the summer of 1998. It sounds like it may be interesting, with that being the summer of “Saving Private Ryan” and “Godzilla,” but when you read a passage that describes Jerry Bruckheimer as having “a poker player’s wary eyes,” you know you’re in for the kind of treat the writer never intended…