The new coffee-table book The Making of Quentin Tarantino ’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood , by Jay Glennie, takes readers behind the scenes of the director’s celebrated reimagining of the Manson Family murders. A romp through 1969 Hollywood, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, a Western TV-series actor whose time in the spotlight is fading fast, and Brad Pitt as his charming deadbeat stunt double, Cliff Booth (a role that won Pitt a Best Supporting Actor Oscar).

In one of the film’s indelible scenes, DiCaprio’s Dalton, doing a guest spot on the series Lancer (which in real life ran from 1968 to 1970), suffers a crisis of confidence on set, flubbing his lines after a night of drinking, and retreating to his trailer for a sputtering, self-flagellating tantrum.

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