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This is a caustic comicbook tale of Hollywood in its 1920s heyday. Anita Loos sets up a sardonic tour of the artifice and excess that is Hollywood: dreadful architecture tasteless fashions bizarre religious sects mass murder sex divorce industry neopotism and vacuous inhabitants.Read More

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    Elmer Bliss, nave and implacably optimistic champion of the Southern Californian way, uses his newspaper column to defend the movie world's indiscretions from the scandal sheets. As Tinseltown parties end in murder, Elmer innocently runs sunny accounts of the stars' wholesome lives. His crowning moment comes as Miss Viola Lake, Hollywood's favorite clean-cut starlet, is about to be accused of drug abuse and sexual promiscuity during a murder trial that threatens to blow the lid off the film colony. With his good intentions at the ready, Elmer leaps, like a matinee idol, to Viola's protection. With intimate ease, Anita Loos sets up a fondly sardonic and devastatingly funny tour of the glorious artifice and excess that is Hollywood: tasteless fashions, bizarre religious sects, mass murder, sex, divorce, extravagant morals, industry nepotism, and vacuous inhabitants-fresh from the Midwest-wandering the boulevards in search of fame and fortune.

  • 1853753661
  • 9781853753664
  • Anita Loos
  • 14 January 2000
  • Prion Books Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 224
  • New edition
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