Blogs in June 2020

Laughing Gas 8th June 2020

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...

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Postcards from the Edge 8th June 2020

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...

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Get Shorty 8th June 2020

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he’s retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood – and to a true story that would make...

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The Day of the Locust 4th June 2020

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...

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Actress 6th December 2019

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is...

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