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Barstow #1
The Beggars Are Coming
Power, money, sex, glamour fame -- that's what Hollywood was to the men and women with the vision to see where the movies were going and the ruthlessness to get there first. They were men like Simon Moses and Fergus Austin - the rich Jew and ambitious Irish kid - who parlayed an East Bronx movie house into a multimillion-dollar studio. Women like Claudia Barstow, daughter of the theater's reigning family, who sold herself again and again for a stardom she couldn't keep. They were people who offered celluloid dreams to a loving public . . . and lived out private nightmares when the cameras stopped.
504 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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October 11, 2023
The book is more of a rough draft than a finished product. It has an interesting premise but jumps from one event to the next, making it impossible to care about any of the characters, as things just happen to them. The problem gets worse as the book drags on and the author seems to care less and less about fleshing out scenes. A character goes to war and dies of pneumonia. Then the next death happens, and a wedding, and then an affair, all over the course of 20 pages. Things just happen and we move on.
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