Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon are self - made men who worked their
tail off to get to where they are, and who work for technically a second -
generation family
business.
We were emerging at the
tail end of the»80s, which was the worst period for cinema in American history because the movie - brat
generation [meaning Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese, among others — the bearded, libertine directors who were reared on Hollywood's golden age] for the most part self - destructed in the late»70s, and for a decade, the studios took the movie
business back.