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The pasts and presents of four onetime and still-going Hollywood movie stars interweave in a world of mystery and memories, publicity and reclusiveness, legend and loss
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A leading man in the fifties and early sixties (I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a good, suburbs-set science fiction movie), Tom Tryon became an acclaimed horror writer with his novel The Other.
His collection of stories and novellas about Hollywood is gamy, gruesome, and sometimes ugly (his story, Willie, based on the brutal murder of silent film star Ramon Navarro, borders on torture porn) but also feels authoritative and true. Fedora, his sub-Sunset Boulevard story about a faded movie star, came full circle and was one of Billy Wilder’s last and least…
From Laurence's list on The best books about Hollywood murder, crime and, most frightening, failure.
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