@bigbeardedbookseller The Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood -- Sam Wasson. #Bookstodon #Hollywood #history #samwasson

“#Movies are an accumulation of mundane tasks that support improbable fables. Closing [#WesleyanUniversity’s #JeanineBasinger and #SamWasson’s “Hollywood: The Oral History”], one wonders if American #entertainment has reached its end as a collection of myths and legends suitable to a secular society…The glow and the gleam of #Hollywood are fading. The collected testimony of witnesses is inevitably a kind of group elegy for something loved and gone.” —#AdamGopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/what-hollywoods-ultimate-oral-history-reveals

Listening to Hollywood: An Oral History by #SamWasson and #JeanineBasinger - a terrific book. The audiobook, however, I want to take the readers aside for a little lesson on how to pronounce Kunbrick, Preminger, toots and gaudy. I've done voiceovers for books and you check this stuff