‘Vice’: The Big Dick-Cheney Energy of Adam McKay
It was a fever, a bookshelf, and possibly divine intervention, that made Adam McKay realize he didn’t know Dick. In the late winter of 2016, the writer-director had just finished the awards-circuit death march for The Big Short, his look at the housing crisis. Then, a week after the Oscars, the 50-year-old filmmaker found himself laid up with what he characterizes as “the worst flu you could possibly imagine.” He’s recalling this while slumped […]