Hollywood

[close] ||This is an advanced roleplay|| Welcome to the city of the bright lights! The lights that blind your logic, and change your mind forever. The city where hopeful dreamers come to get their dreams crushed. The city where secrets are money. Where anything that is hidden, ends up splashed on the front page. Where you learn that your friends are only young theives ready to sell you out for a dime. Where you can't trust a soul. Where your career will begin and end, and you sure as heck won't be the same. Where apparently pain comes with beauty, and trust doesn't come with fame.

[close] The Fame! The Fortune! Everyone wishes for it, but only you can have it!

[close] This group is devoted to the book Movie Dynasty Princesses: Irene Mayer Selznick and Edith Mayer Goetz, but we will discuss other show business biographies as well. This book chronicles the colorful lives of the celebrated sisters who were the daughters of Louis B. Mayer, and wives of high profile film producers. Each made her own distinctive mark: Edith as a leading Hollywood socialite and Irene as a legendary Broadway producer.

[close] This is a group to explore the esoteric writings of The Catcher In The Rye through the lens of WW1 and WW2. To define that I take a quote from Philosophy Between The Lines "An esoteric writer or writing would involve the following characteristics: first, the effort to convey certain truths—the “esoteric” teaching—to a select group of individuals by means of some indirect or secretive mode of communication; second, the concomitant effort to withhold or conceal these same truths from most people; and third (a common but not strictly necessary characteristic) the effort to propagate for the sake of the latter group a fictional doctrine—the “exoteric” teaching—in place of the true doctrine that has been withheld." In Decadence: And Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (1921) THE DISASSOCIATION OF IDEAS Jhere are two ways of thinking. One can either accept current ideas and associations of ideas, just as they are, or else undertake, on his own account, new associations or, what is rarer, original disassociations. The intelligence capable of such efforts is, more or less, according to the degree, or according to the abundance and variety of its other gifts, a creative intelligence. It is a question either of inventing new relations be- tween old ideas, old images, or of separating old ideas, old images united by tradition, of considering them one by one, free to work them over and arrange an infinite number of new couples which a fresh operation will disunite once more, and so on till new ties, always fragile and doubtful, are formed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot