Hollywood Hoopla: Creating Stars and Selling Movies in the Golden Age of Hollywood

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Summary: Interesting book on Hollywood's Golden Era
Review: "Hollywood Hoopla" is an interesting and informative book on the Hollywood publicity machine of yesteryear and filled with many unknown facts on the industry's behind the scenes. HOWEVER, at the end of each chapter, Mr. Sennett comments on today's Hollywood customs on a certain subject and never fails to compare it unfavorably with those of forty-to-sixty years ago. Why does he have to prove at the end of each chapter on how Hollywood has grown vulgar and inferior over the ages? Doesn't he realize that Hollywood has always been vulgar?