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Summary: a book that is a fun guilty-pleasure!!!
Review: Hollywood is a place i have always dreamed about and have NEVER wanted to visit, and this book only solidifies my conviction.
what's great about it is that all of our present day sandals-- OJ, Michael Jackson, J-Lo, the list goes on-- seem like small potatoes compared to the movers and shakers of the Golden Age of Cinema. Drug overdoeses, sex, violence, police corruption, and hintings of the underworld ran rampant and Anger's prose in the style of a tabloid is so engaging i couldn't put this book down!and i'm not ashamed to admit that the pictures (which were helpful in stories regarding actors i had never heard of before) add to the narrative in surreal and funny ways *** check out the picture of Jayne Mansfield's dead dog at the end! a fun and quick read for the summer!
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Summary: Very Entertaining!
Review: Iove this book with all my heart. It reveals the real glamorous tinsel trash that i love. It really was the golden era!
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Summary: reader
Review: I have never written a review on a book before, but after reading this book, I had to. This book is the worse I have ever read. I read a lot of biographies, and this book is so poorly written and full of lies, it is just not worth it.
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Summary: FICTION AS FACT FOR THE MOST PART
Review: Anger's book has become the poster child for poorly-researched books on Hollywood scandal. By now, most of the reading world is aware that the book is full of half-truths, unsubstantiated rumors, and pure fiction. In addition to incredibly innacurate "facts." Even the sample text provided here that describes John Gilbert's death as a basis of "A Star is Born" is almost comically inaccurate. That movie was based upon the relationship between Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay. Gilbert's life had NOTHING to do with that film. No true (or self-respecting) Hollywood writer would cite Anger's book as fact or research. He's a nice man, but the book is simply Hollywood trash.
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