Considering Wilder ""the fastest, funniest, meanest mind in Hollywood,"" Sikov admires his subject without succumbing to reverence.
By naming this attempt at a definitive Wilder biography after the savagely humorous 1950 classic, Sikov (Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s) invites a risky comparison-and pulls it off with a broad, well-documented overview of Wilder's life and work. 1906) is one of the last survivors of Hollywood's Golden Age, the writer and director of seminal films like Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and his masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard.
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