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Title: FICTION AS FACT FOR THE MOST PART
Review: Anger's book has become the poster child for poorly-researched books on Hollywood scandal. By now, most of the reading world is aware that the book is full of half-truths, unsubstantiated rumors, and pure fiction. In addition to incredibly innacurate "facts." Even the sample text provided here that describes John Gilbert's death as a basis of "A Star is Born" is almost comically inaccurate. That movie was based upon the relationship between Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay. Gilbert's life had NOTHING to do with that film. No true (or self-respecting) Hollywood writer would cite Anger's book as fact or research. He's a nice man, but the book is simply Hollywood trash.
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