The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as
- & sometimes more fascinating than
- a stars actual life. From the grisly

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Los Angeles: the City of Angels. Whether this epithet evokes sunshine & beaches glamorous movie stars or the possibility of fame many around the world have a fantasy of this enchanting impossible place stored in their minds. Its reality is as much the record of the place on film as the real Los Angeles. This is because Los Angeles is first & foremost a city of cinema both in the movies that are made there & the filmed image of the place either recorded on location or recreated in a studio set. In Hollywood Cinema & the Real Los Angeles Mark Shiel explores Los Angeles from the invention of motion pictures in the 1890s to the decline of the studio system in the 1950s describing the ever-changing cinematic image of the city & the ways in which its representations reflected & manipulated its physical geography. Shiel shows how the construction of studios helped to change the shape of Los Angeles & how Hollywood not only contributed to but also complicated its economic political social & cultural life. The author describes the incredibly popular films that were produced during this time from the early slapstick comedies to film noir arguing that the histories of Los Angeles & its film industry cannot be understood in isolation from each other. Shiel gives a close analysis of narrative mise en scene cinematography editing & other elements of film style concentrating on the ways in which filmmakers engaged with the architecture of the city both inside the studios & on location in California. Written by an expert in the history & theory of cinema & the city Hollywood Cinema & the Real Los Angeles in a must-read for anyone interested in Hollywood movies or the history & architecture of Los Angeles. As well as being illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs the book offers an in-depth view of the city that has never been seen before. ...

This landmark book celebrates for the very first time the costume designers contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered costume Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people & it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest & most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years. As well as essays by a wide variety of leading scholars archivists & private collectors the book incorporates contributions by key costume designers actors & directors working in Hollywood today. Fabulous golden age of Hollywood costumes are juxtaposed beside all the contemporary classics including The Tramp Ben Hur Cleopatra The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind Pirates of the Caribbean Oceans Eleven Sherlock Holmes & Avatar. ...

The cops of Hollywood Station are still over-worked under-staffed bound by red tape hobbled by political correctness & constantly amazed by what the boulevards can throw at them. Scratch the surface of the reel Hollywood & youll discover the real Hollywood. Here Mickey Mouse is a crack addict Marilyn Monroe is a man & when the moon is full the neighbourhood gets even weirder. When the legendary Oracle is replaced by Sgt. Jason Chickenlips Treakle
- a politically correct paper shuffling putz with a shiny shoe fetish
- Nate Hollywood Weiss leaves the mid-watch to become a Crow or Community Relations Officer (C.R.O.). These are the guys dealing with domestic disputes busting stalkers bouncing paparazzi & calming chronic complainers wannabe cops & loons of all varieties. It should be easy duty
- to the other cops its the sissie beat
- but being Hollywood the loons are not in short supply & not everything is quite at is seems. So when Hollywood Nate & fellow crow Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz they think theyre just having some fun. To them Margot is a harmless hill bunny stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from a nefarious strip-club-owner. But Margots no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them up so she can pull off the perfect murder & walk away with her ex-husbands ill-won fortune. But Margot isnt the only one with a deadly plan.



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For the streetwise cops of Hollywood Station dealing with the panhandlers prostitutes & costumed crackheads of the boulevard is all in a days work. If theyre lucky surf-mad partners Flotsam & Jetsam can spend the morning calming the crazies & the afternoon policing the babes on the beach. But beyond the lights & the crowds on the Walk of Fame the real Los Angeles simmers dangerously. & when things heat up even veterans like Viv Daley will see things that theyll wish they could forget. In the hills above town its a different world where sports-car-studded driveways lead to sprawling villas stuffed with clothes & jewels. Up here pickings are easy for the Bling Ring
- a group of photogenic young addicts who knock off celebrity cribs to fund their next fix. Even experienced cop & wannabe filmstar Nate "" Hollywood"" Weiss has struck gold in the hills. Leona Bruger wife of an Industry Mover & Shaker has taken a fancy to him. Although he knows the Hollywood maxim
- you dont pet the cougars especially if they belong to the boss
- Nate reckons that a leg-over might be just the leg-up he needs. What Weiss doesnt realise is that his new flames crooked art-dealer is about to pull a forgery scam right under his nose. & when a pair of desperate junkies hit on a foolproof plan to pay their drug debts with a stolen painting things get very complicated indeed...""


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Hollywood certainly isn't your typical police precinct but in Hollywood Moon follow-up to Hollywood Station & Hollywood Crows the cops of that surreal place seem called upon to deal with an even greater share of weirdness than normal. Drag queens in delicto flagrante behind dumpsters dead hobos pushed around in wheelchairs men in massage parlours receiving unspeakable injuries from Barbie dolls. That's not to say that the cops themselves don't have their own peculiarities: Hollywood Nate still dreams of movie stardom but worries as he gets older that he's too good-looking to be a character actor. Then there's Aaron Sloane forever lusting after his beautiful partner Sheila Montez & Dana Vaughn a tough no-nonsense cop who can't stand the fact that former chauvinist pig turned 'guardian angel' Lee Murillo won't stop following her around after she saved his life. But there's a darker side to all that weirdness
- & when the enigmatic crook Dewey Gleason known variously to his associates as ' Jacob Kessler' & ' Bernie Graham' hatches an audacious kidnap plan without knowing that one of the hired help lives a double life as a serial sex attacker things start to get very dangerous indeed.
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Legend tells of the Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster... Bruce is thrilled
- his favourite Hollywood action star Vin Pain is starring in a new film! But the film also features a surprising new acting talent
- none other than Doris the Dancing Dog the Ringmaster's faithful hound. Just what is the Ringmaster up to? The Clan jet off to Hollywood.. .but they'll need to move faster than a clapperboard if they're to thwart his evil plans this time...

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Scandalous. Glamorous. Sexy. Victoria Foxs sassy sparkling debut puts the bonk back into bonkbuster! Written with humour style & panache Hollywood Sinners takes you into a world of film moguls glitz glamour contract marriages & the dirty underbelly of celebrity Supported by a huge publicity campaign with Midas PR across womens magazines & marketing activity that will target the summer reading market & fans of fashion & glamour A glorious sexy story of high-octane Hollywood intrigue Lulu Taylor ...

Hollywood Unseen is a tribute to the incredible inventiveness & ingenuity of the great Hollywood film studios: Columbia Paramount MGM Universal Warner Brothers RKO & Twentieth Century Fox. From the late 1920s to the early 1950s these studios presided over the Golden Age of Cinema & their publicity departments created some of the most stunning & iconic images of Hollywoods stars ever taken. Here for the first time are photographs showing the ordinary lives of the stars including Rita Hayworth Gary Cooper Humphrey Bogart & Marilyn Monroe. In reality these photographs were as carefully constructed & prepared as any classic portrait or scene & they depicted the actors & actresses exactly as the studios wanted them to be seen. The publicity departments cleverly formed an idealised view of the husbands wives children pets parties premieres & hobbies of the stars. Ironically many of the images were only used once or twice & were then never seen again. Drawn from the extensive archive of the John Kobal Foundation this book showcases an extraordinary collection of these hidden photographic gems. John Kobal was an authority on Hollywood portrait photography who established a preeminent collection of works featuring iconic stars of the day. The Getty Image Library in London will be hosting an exhibition of these images to coincide with the publication of this book. ...

Power! Sex! Money! Fame!
- the new Hollywood wives are back with a vengeance. Ambitious young smart & lethal whatever they don't
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