Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hollywood Novels

Over at Newsday, I have a list of great Hollywood novels–one of my favorite literary genres. The painful part was choosing only five. Here they are. Other contenders include: Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald (also the Pat Hobby stories) The Goodbye People, Gavin Lambert What Makes Sammy Run, [...]
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Thinking about Catherine Deneuve (and other cinephilic tendencies)

A review of Geoffrey Nowell-Smith’s Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s and Vanessa R. Schwartz’s It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture in The Los Angeles Times: link.
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