ENTERTAINMENT
January 28, 1990 | PETER RAINER
In the heyday of the studio system, and for some time thereafter, a successful director who routinely took on assignments from his bosses would occasionally be rewarded with the opportunity to make his "own" films. These films would not infrequently turn out to be less enlivening than the director's crass commercial work, but not always. Corporate policy at least begrudgingly recognized the right of artists to be artists. The current brutal bottom-lineism of Hollywood precludes such recognition.