Death Race 2000

It may be that Eric Red is only guilty of the one thing that is most rewarded in Hollywood: survival. Survival against impossible odds, in the face of unspeakable hardship, where common sense tells you you’re finished and conscience becomes a luxury.

Maybe he just benefitted from the police department's institutional deference to “the industry” and pursued an ambitious legal strategy.

Illustrations by Kiersten Essenpreis

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Maybe after 15 years in Hollywood, survival is the only skill you really have.

Until it’s not.