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Martini Shot

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Veteran TV writer and producer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life on...

Karina Longworth recommended Souls For Sale (1923) in Movies (curated)

Souls For Sale (1923)

1923 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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"The first one would be Souls For Sale, which was actually written and directed by Howard Hughes’ uncle, Rupert Hughes. It was based on a novel that Rupert Hughes wrote. He had been an author and a playwright and he had been brought to Hollywood in 1918 as sort of an effort that Samuel Goldwyn did to bring famous authors into the movies to try increase the qualities of movies. Rupert Hughes had just fallen in love with Hollywood and once it started being attacked after the scandals of the 1920s, he wanted to defend what he felt was an industry that was getting a bad rap. He wrote this novel and they made a movie out of it called Souls For Sale, and it’s about the daughter of a fire-and-brimstone preacher who escapes her brand new husband, who she has a bad feeling about, and ends up in a movie and immediately becomes a huge star. It basically tells the story of this girl encountering the movie industry, and at every moment where something sort of dirty or scandalous could happen, she actually finds that the people in Hollywood are really hard-working and upstanding citizens and are a higher quality of human than – for instance – her treacherous husband. It’s a really interesting movie. It’s definitely an artifact of its time and place – and you could say that more literally about it than many other movies because it has kind of a documentary element about it. The director really goes out of his way to show you what the studio lots looked like in 1923, and he films other directors like Charlie Chaplin working. It’s a movie that I had never heard of before as I was doing research [for the book], and I think it’s probably the earliest sort of Hollywood movie about Hollywood."

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Che (148 KP) rated Perfect Date (2019) in Movies

May 28, 2019

Perfect Date (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Romance

6.7

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Pretty boy wants the best life and makes an app to obtain it. Only to lose everything before realizing he was fine the way he was. I mean, we’ve seen this repeatedly in Hollywood. Same plot. Different cast. Nothing new to see here. Move it along. Move it along.

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The Chauncey DeVega Show

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The Chauncey DeVega Show is the official podcast of Salon.com politics writer Chauncey DeVega. On a...

American Vampire: Vol 02

Mateus Santolouco, Rafael Albuquerque and Scott Snyder

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In this title collecting issues #6-11 of the hit series, it's Las Vegas circa 1935, and Skinner...

The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Melting the Snow on Hester Street in Books

Oct 7, 2020

Max and Eleanor Beecham seem the perfect couple. But their dark past still haunts them both, and it is tearing them apart. You can read my revised review of this historical fiction novel about Hollywood's secrets and pasts here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/05/10/hollywood-secrets-and-pasts/