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Zorro

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12. Not recent but last year I read The Honeycomb by Adela Rogers St. Johns

Mon Dec 30, 2013, 12:44 AM

Dec 2013

which I found quite fascinating with her observations both as a reporter of early Hollywood and her personal involvement with a number of personalities of the era (Hearst, Valentino, etc.).

I'm about 3/4ths of the way through Julia Phillips's autobiography You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, which also has some catty remarks about current Hollywood personalities and also describes her decline from a noted producer to freebasing druggie. It takes a real arrogant attitude to do a line of coke in front of everyone in the middle of a marketing meeting.

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