No-Excuses

“Then there’s Roger Corman – the cheerful, cut-price producer of shock, schlock, beach movies, biker dramas and Edgar Allan Poe stories, dripping in blood, the producer who gave first chances to Bogdanovich, Coppola, Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, etc. Can you imagine the celebration of Hollywood’s last great generation that might honor Corman? No, it won’t happen on Oscar night. It’s on 14 November. Do you care?”