The story of how Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg met, befriended each other, and worked in frequently close collaboration as they took over Hollywood in the 1970s is a subject tailor-made for a great book. Paul Fischer’s The Last Kings of Hollywood, however, is not that book. While he studiously chronicles the events of the time period, he fails to capture or transmit any excitement for it. You know that line from Good Will Hunting about an education you could have got “for $1.50 in […]