City of Nets

[Carvill John]

Pretty sure I recommended this before. A fantastic, anecdote-filled overview of Hollywood in the 1940s, one of the best books about movies I've ever read, the sort of book you buy copies of for friends, and full of Pynchon resonances (now, more than ever), Otto Friedrich's 'City of Nets':


http://www.amazon.com/City-Nets-Portrait-Hollywood-1940s/dp/0520209494



Here's a (fairly equivocal) review in the NYT which at least gives an idea of content:


http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/03/books/books-of-the-times-778986.html?&pagewanted=all




CheersJC



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