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Zac Posen recommended The Price of Illusion in Books (curated)

 
The Price of Illusion
The Price of Illusion
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"My dear friend Joan Juliet Buck has had quite a life — epic adventures in Hollywood, Paris, London, NYC and Ireland! This is her life story about the drive and allure of glamour and appearances, all the way to being the first and only American editor-in-chief of French Vogue, to her complicated relationship with her father (who was producing partners with John Houston and Peter O'Toole)."

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Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
1957 | Drama
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"Cinema is most often analogized with dreaming (see Hollywood as “dream factory”), but it is also a kind of remembering: it manufactures an immediate past, and thus makes us retrospectively and prospectively older. Bergman’s Wild Strawberries starts with a dream and ends with a memory, aligning its beauty with the beauty of its seventy-seven-year-old star, the great Swedish actor and director Victor Sjöström."

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Bigger Than Life (1956)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
1956 | Drama
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"I love this drama by Nicholas Ray, shot in CinemaScope. James Mason plays a professor and family man who has a troubled relationship with over-the-counter drugs. Bigger Than Life is a modern take on U.S. society in the 1950s that was unusual at a time when Hollywood and television were invested in depicting picture-perfect nuclear families. The film is both disturbing and fascinating."

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Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Lifetime
Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Lifetime
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Frank Derrick is going to Hollywood, not just to pay homage to his much beloved film industry, but to see his daughter Beth, who is recovering from cancer. He's also going to help his granddaughter Laura with her plan to get Beth back together with her husband Jimmy. Read my review of this delightful novel here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/06/20/a-well-traveled-reunion-project/
  
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
2019 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An extremely open advocate for a dying artform makes a film that both marks the downfall and celebrates the beauty. Having watched "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" twice, one digital print and one 35mm, I absolutely recommend watching the film with the actual film print projected and then watch the film a few more times to fully appreciate the magic.

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Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
1971 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
The iconic masterpiece that cemented Eastwoods Hollywood career, and was one of the 1970's best vigilante cop movies to boot.
He shares screen time with a 357 Magnum and delivered the "Do you feel lucky, punk" phrase that has become synonymous with cop movies since.
Not the best film in Eastwoods career but one that sticks out in pop culture and is enduring.
  
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Kimmic (814 KP) rated Brave in Books

Sep 3, 2021  
Brave
Brave
Rose McGowan | 2018 | Biography
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I wasn't sure about this one at first because I have seen a lot of interviews where Rose McGowan comes across very strong, stern and cold... but reading this and understanding her full story and what she has been through, was a huge eye opener. You must truly be brave to stand up and speak against the bugs of Hollywood and do what she did.
  
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    Lux Radio Theatre 1934-1955 This was one of few sixty-minute broadcasts and was the most...