‘Satan has a coffin, and he has LA in the coffin, and he’s almost finished hammering it shut, and the coffin’s gonna go down the gutters of Hollywood like a glass-bottomed boat, and it’ll roll over the memories of Jimmy Cagney and Fatty Arbuckle, and Hollywood will finally end for the same reason that the Roman and British empires ended — for the same reason that all movies and symphonies end. Because there has to be an end.’