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The Weird and Wonderful Life of L.A.’s Most Bizarre Celebrity Photographer

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 12, 2023September 12, 2023

“He had the golden era of Hollywood in those shoe boxes.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

by Peter Rubin September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

“The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.”

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My Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise

by Seyward Darby July 21, 2023August 1, 2023

“The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway?”

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Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

“The show was a groundbreaking smash, but behind the scenes it devolved into such toxicity that even co-showrunner Damon Lindelof now says of his leadership: ‘I failed.'”

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Are We Having Fun Yet?!: The Oral History of ‘Party Down’

by Seyward Darby February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

“As the Starz comedy makes an unlikely return to air, its creators look back on creating a unique inside-Hollywood workplace sitcom, scrapping through a difficult development period, and getting gold from Adam Scott, Ken Marino, and Jane Lynch.”

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Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are Cinema’s Most Studious Eccentrics

by Seyward Darby December 1, 2022December 5, 2022

“The horror master and the movie star expound on a possible curriculum for the apocryphal Nicolas Cage University.”

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A Child Star at 7, in Prison at 22. Then She Vanished. What Happened to Lora Lee Michel?

by Carolyn Wells November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

“Hollywood is notorious for erasing people. But her sister and nieces refused to forget Lora Lee Michel.”

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Some Like It Hot

by Carolyn Wells October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

“Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society.”

A photo of a young Tom Cruise and a recent photo of him
Posted inQuotes

Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List

by Chloe Walker June 30, 2022October 19, 2022

Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.

Marilyn Monroe laying on a lawn smiling
Posted inNonfiction

Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes

by Sascha Cohen March 31, 2022October 19, 2022

The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.

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