Not only is the terrain distant, but in this period memory has been enfeebled by booze and drugs.In a town where credit grabbing is an art form, to say that memory is self-serving is to say that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is particularly true in the case of Hollywood, where despite the reams of memos and contracts that w gather dust on the shelves of university libraries, very little of what really matters is committed to paper, so that an endeavor of this sort is dependent on memory - in this case of an era twenty or thirty years in the past. At the end of this long, twisted road I am once again struck with the force of the old maxim, the more you kw, the more you kw what you don't kw. Although this book tells readers altogether more than they may wish to kw about the Hollywood of the '70s, I do t flatter myself that I have arrived at the truth.
The people who dwell there create fictions for a living, fictions that refuse tidily to confine themselves to the screen, but spill over into the daily lives of the men and women who regard themselves as stars in the movies of their own lives. AckwledgmentsHollywood is a town of fabulators.
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