In Hollywood A Starlet Is

In Hollywood A Starlet Is The Name For Any Woman Under Thirty Who Is Not Actively Employed In A Brothel.

Trying To Determine What Is Going On In The World By Reading Newspapers Is Like Trying To Tell The Time By Watching The Second Hand Of A Clock.

I Haunted Streets, Whorehouses, Police Stations, Courtrooms, Theater Stages, Jails, Saloons, Slums, Madhouses, Fires, Murders, Riots, Banquet Halls And Bookshops. I Ran Everywhere In The City Like A Fly Buzzing In The Works Of A Clock, Tasted More Than Any Fit Belly Could Hold, Learned Not To Sleep, And Buried Myself In A Tick-tock Of Whirling Hours That Still Echo In Me.

The Factors That Laid Low So Whooping And Puissant An Empire As The Old Hollywood Are Many. I Can Think Of A Score, Including The Barbarian Hordes Of Television. But There Is One That Stands Out For Me In The Post-mortem.... The Factor Had To Do With The Basis Of Movie-making: 'who Shall Be In Charge Of Telling The Story.'

The Movies Are One Of The Bad Habits That Corrupted Our Century.of Their Many Sins, I Offer As The Worst Their Effect On The Intellectual Side Of The Nation. It Is Chiefly From That Viewpoint I Write Of Them - As An Eruption Of Trash That Has Lamed The American Mind And Retarded Americans From Becoming A Cultured People.