Smoke over Malibu

The Hon. Lucius Kluge – honourable, lucky, clever – might be the only guy in Los Angeles who''s still living in the past.

Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood, before Star Wars and superheroes blew up the movies for good. He spends his days working for an antiques business, his nights boozing and brooding on his former life as an almost-successful screenwriter.

But when his ex-best frie...