City of Nets

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Here's a good page on City of Nets. Scroll down a bit for some John Garfield content, including a nice pic.
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> http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2009/07/10-books-from-cinephiles-past-city-of.html
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> "But it is ultimately a sad book, an elegy for a system wrecked from within and without. Whenever the Siren picks up City of Nets, she is always drawn to the heartbreaking account of the final days of John Garfield, as the great actor, in exile in New York, types up a "confession" for Look magazine and spends hours on the phone, "trying to find somebody to talk to."

Friedrich, Otto.  City of Nets:
   A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's.
   Berkeley: U of Cal P, 1997.

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/7042.php
http://books.google.com/books?id=1Y9uZw7YNK8C