You know that old joke about how the majority of New Yorker cartoons could be captioned “Christ, what an asshole!”?  I thought about that a lot while I was reading Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock’N’Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.  This book chronicles the work of many major directors of the 1970s, including Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), Robert Altman (Nashville, McCabe and Mrs. Miller), and Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), […]