‘Make Me Feel Like I Matter’: Fantasy and Reality in Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood’

Yes (from the Netflix series “Hollywood”)

Ryan Murphy’s effervescent ‘Hollywood’ starts off like one of the fizzy cocktails Patti LuPone is always sipping in its many bar scenes. Watching the early episodes, it’s easy to feel intoxicated, especially if you have even an ounce of curiosity about the lurid behind-the-scenes machinations involved in producing the ‘wholesome’ American studio films of…