Back in the day, Harry Cohn, notorious chief of Columbia Pictures, had a foolproof way to judging a film’s merit: “If my fanny squirms, it’s bad. If my fanny doesn’t squirm, it’s good. It’s as simple as that.” To which Herman Mankiewicz responded, “Imagine, the whole world wired to Harry Cohn’s ass!” Carmen Fariña, New…
