"To Rome!!"

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2020)

Great fun. But despite lovingly recreating Hollywood as it looked in the early fifties (along with its movies, although 'Merrily We Dance' looked more thirties) and knowing references to the likes of Norman Taurog, people who would know who Norman Taurog was would soon find themselves set adrift by the general vagueness of the personalities pastiched (possibly to forestall litigation by the next of kin of the real life models).
Naming the main character 'Eddie Mannix' (a name that still to me conjures up the early seventies TV series with Mike Connors) is at odds with generally using aliases; but was it caution or simple sloppiness that made the name on his office door 'Edward Mannix' when the real Mannix was actually 'Edgar'?