The ultimate senior auteur

Strangest thing, being in a bar and glancing up at the TV tuned to ESPN and there's a making-of featurette and I see this dour 65-ish guy in an ascot, beagle-eyed behind enormous tortoiseshell glasses, and I think, holy heck, what is Peter "Who The Hell Made It?" Bogdanovich doing on ESPN? Turns out he directed Hustle, the Pete Rose biopic, starring Tom Sizemore under a Moe Howard wig. James Wolcott did the work so we don't have to, even paraphrasing Office Space: "Keeping alive an abandoned tradition, Peter Bogdanovich is the last director in Hollywood to sport an ascot. On him it doesn't look jaunty. His wunderkind years as the director of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon are so far in the past that any touch of flair on him looks a little wilted now, though one appreciates the effort. But if Bogdanovich is no longer the cocky neotraditionalist he was in his prime--the ultimate junior auteur--he's still capable of doing solid, unpretentious, almost anonymous craftwork behind the camera, and his take on the Pete Rose saga... was a fascinating portrait of a life that needed the constant pump of stimulation."