Freddie the Know-it-all’s Reviews > City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s > Status Update

I liked the long, long harangue about Howard Hughes. Mainly because it confirms my prophesy that Musk is just his re-incarnation. I'm certain that Leon will end up saving his toenail clippings, urine, and feces in jars; wandering around the woods muttering about Space or the United Federation of Planets.

Not only that, I have a solution for the Poor Old crowd. Don't move to the USA where you're not wanted and never fit in. Back home you won't be a Poor Old, you'll be just a regular guy.

Just after fretting about the poor old stars and how they suffer because they're commies, then it's the poor old Hollywood tycoons and how they suffer because all their relatives are in Ouchwitz. Now it's the poor old japs and how they're suffering in internment camps. "Journalism" wasn't always a What About the Poor Old , but in my lifetime that's all it's been.

Now GR is suggesting all kinds of Thick People magazines to me; The Life of Meryl Street and vomit like that. I shoulda known better than get near this News of the Stars crap. Strictly for teenaged girls ... and various shlemiels, shlemazels, shmendricks, and shmucks. Imagine someone wanting to know what that dim-bulb degenerate Berthold Brecht thought or did.

This guy simply cannot stick to a topic - he goes off on tangents like a barroom drunkard. I should dump this POS, but, like The Wizard says, "... like I been a, ... I been a cabbie for 17 years. 10 years at night .. and I still don't own my own cab, ya know why ... 'cause I don't want to; that must be what I, what I want. ...ya know, to be on the night shift driving somebody else's cab."

Must be what I want.

Trying this one again. Regretted it: a whole chapter about Poor Ol' Underdog Stars getting in trouble for being commie spies and saboteurs (sniff-sniff), the poor dears. But after all, who's gonna write a book about about these cap-and-bells sissies but a wannabe cap-and-bell sissy? It's getting hard to find anything I like these days. Might go re-read someone with some talent or at least some self-awareness.