(born 1943) Michael Cimino’s career exemplifies Hollywood hubris. Before age thirty Cimino coscripted the second “Dirty Harry” movie, Magnum Force (1973), starring Clint Eastwood, which examined the destructiveness of the Vietnam experience on four veteran cops. In 1978 Cimino directed and cowrote the moody, Vietnam-themed The Deer Hunter, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and gave Cimino the artistic and commercial freedom to direct his next project at the thenunheard of budget of $40 million. When Heaven’s Gate (1980) flopped, the historic film studio United Artists went bankrupt and Cimino’s promising career took a dive.