How to be a Movie Star
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no filmography
no ________, is: “The caress of a steel vise”!, of 46; 92
Chap 1 is really chap 5 or 6 – but he is getting the
_____ of ______
22 _______ Way – no proper noun can be typed
_____ a par of Wikipedia accompaiment
23 a lifestyle so spoiled it would make a
socialist out of Thatcher
29 She conceived of life as a movie, so, given
his ______ ______, does Mann
98 “Surefire moneymaker” – but nowhere is this explained
same for ref to her beauty, etc
122 She couldn’t boil water
>137 marriage to Wilding, as to Nicky Hilton, an act –
______ are people ______ at pretending
177 “making movies… never a passion for her” - + it
shows
178 part on love worth analysing – he can’t see people
____ Liz are incapable of it
181 
cd only be written by a gay!
182 Liz ______ Eddy _____ marriage is phoney –
so why doesn’t Mann???
192 “Hollywood happy”, for Don Quix Todd plans on
“renting Spain” – the age of US capitalist ______
196 
+ yet he knows they were children – it’s a bulimic
______, gorging + _____ on ____ _____
218 Todd’s plane crashes – but Mann has already prepared
us for the ____ + Eddie Fisher
222 “melodrama was the stuff of E’s life” – see 226 for life
+ _____ _____
*244-7 for letters of ______ ______ you been to another age
257 good eg of Mann’s technique of focussing on life not art
274-5 Butterfield 8 is her life – except she has never given us
what we want – an all American car crash death
298 she wins Oscar, but Mann can’t see that it was
given for nearly dying a page earlier!
307 MUST QUOTE
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341 Sandpiper not about _____, ___ _____, but sure
people change the terms of the stories ___ ___ ____
and we call them stars
346 Liz as milkshake or martini – USE!
349 Liz as rule breaker – salaries, sweary etc
351 Another good part about _____ _____ and fame
direction
352 Good Burton __
>>356 V. brave of her, really, to go fat and old for who’s
afraid – in the age of Twiggy and _____ ______, . .
358 ______ _____ way line Martha – yet that’s how we
see her
370 US taxrates higher than UK’s!
372-3 Sued coz Cleo _____ were _____ _____
morals are blamed
398 drink +______ - no wonder she was
friends with Jackson
I'm not sure how useful this has been. I like the bit about the car crash though. This is interesting. I think i'll watch Crash (Cronenburg) again and think about this. There's a lot of re-enacting in that film.
