Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History | 
pickA quick read full of trivia and gossip about Hollywood movie stars and their legendary exploits in pursuit of oblivion at the bottom of a bottle. I‘m not quite sure how the movie stars were sorted into the four categories - Silent Era, Studio Era, Postwar, and 1960s/New Hollywood - particularly the last two which have a lot of overlap. The book ends with Natalie Wood, making me wonder why the authors didn‘t continue into more recent movie stardom.
balletbookworm Is it more to do with nostalgia (every person with a bio here is deceased), avoiding litigation, or has the increasing access of the public to celebrity culture eliminated much of the allure that Old Hollywood possessed? 7y
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