After cowboys and folk music, the Coens' 'Hail' Hollywood's Golden Age

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For more than thirty years, Joel and Ethan Coen have tackled almost every film genre, from stoner comedy "The Big Lebowski" to revenge Western "True Grit" and the 1960s New York folk music scene in 2013's "Inside Llewyn Davis." But for their latest caper, the filmmaker brothers found themselves inspired by something a little closer to home - Hollywood's Golden Age. "Hail, Caesar!," out in U.S. theatres Friday, follows a stress-filled couple of days in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a fixer at a major Hollywood film studio who is dealing with the mysterious kidnapping of his leading man Baird Whitlock (George Clooney). Mannix must deal with two nosey twin gossip columnists (Tilda Swinton), a pregnant leading lady (Scarlett Johansson) and a punctilious director (Ralph Fiennes) trying to make a star out of a bumbling young cowboy (Alden Ehrenreich).