Justine Bateman: ‘This election was a tipping point for the woke mob mentality’

“Absolute cowboys, in the truest sense of it,” Justine Bateman declares, in praise of the frontier directors and producers who have come to embody the mythology of old Hollywood. She sometimes likes to leaf through the interviews that Peter Bogdanovich conducted with 16 auteur directors- Hitchcock, George Cukor, Fritz Lang – for a book called Who the Devil Made It. “None of that work would have been made if they did not have that fearless attitude and just f**king do it. And that was the heart of that 100-year-old business.” As far as Bateman is concerned, that industry – “that...