![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually primarily financial predation, though he does talk about other types, as well. The various ways in which people who want to be stars are taken advantage of when they get to Hollywood is the main subject, at least by page count. This is but a small part of the book, though. (A lot of public hypocrisy around moral issues is frequently much less about actual hypocrisy and more a smoke screen by the vicious in the hope that publicly condemning their vice makes them less likely to ever be suspected of it.) There’s something very curious there, because Ed Wood had publicly admitted to wearing women’s underwear many years before he ever started writing this book, so it’s not like he could have been trying to draw attention away from himself. Equally famous for Glen or Glenda, a semi-autobiographical movie about crossdressing in which understanding for people so afflicted is pleaded to the audience, Hollywood Rat Race more than once comments fairly negatively on men and women who dress in such a way that one cannot tell the difference between them, and also on men who wear women’s clothing. It’s a weird book, which I suppose is no great surprise because it was written by a very weird man. ![]() I don’t have time for a full review now, but I do want to say that for people interested in the history of film, it is definitely worth reading. Earlier I mentioned I got the book Hollywood Rat Race by Edward D. ![]()
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