Hollywood always has been the
mecca of the subject of gossip, beyond that of the cinema. L' aspect purifys
feraciously and glamour dell' American industry is l' ideal atmosphere for the
life of the ambiguous figures to half between the journalist and the informer
who nutrono of scandals and private passions. It ritratta in numerous films,
most recent of which the history of the production of " is RKO 281 (;
Fourth Potere" of Orson Welles) where it has the face of Brenda Blethyn,
Louella Parson one of the fundamental ones is considered " columnist"
engaged in moving scandals, secrets and lies of the Hollywoodiano world of the
years ' 40 and ' 50.
Implacable recensore and pitiless
rivelatrice of other people's screw, the Parsons comes painted from RKO 281
like direct emissary of the miliardario Randolph Hearst, that it wants at all
costs to block the film of Welles based on its private life. Other "
gossipper" historical of the cinema American, it avails again directed of
Louella Parson, it was l' actress Hedda Hopper, ultraconservative and most
powerful manovratrice of hollywoodiane vicissitudes, with friendships that had
names like that one of the head dell' FBI J. Edgar Hoover. With he the Hopper had
the tightest contacts and from he it collected numerous information on the
truth dirtier and hidden of the star. Upset anti-communist, it fought feracious
battles against film that to its sbandieravano judgment attitudes "
antiamericane" , succeeding in to demolish above suspicion personages like
Frank Goat, supporting that its " Mr Smith goes to Washinghton" it
degraded the figure of the American citizen: " (the film asserts that) in
happens them of the United States not is honest americani".
An other actor (also director)
has been protagonist of the game to the slaughter of the subject of gossip,
even if not through a newspaper, but a book: in 1959 in France (l' edition in
English will appear alone in 1975) exits " Hollywood Babilonia" of Kenneth
Anger, un' carefully detailed exposure of the ventre I march of the star system
of Hollywood flavored of sex, drug, psychosis and died. C' it has been also a
continuation of the book and a documentary based on the text, than but Anger
has disownn. Given over to practical esoteric of satanista stamp, same it to
the center of scandals and excesses, Anger have been one of the more important
exponents of the New American Cinema. The modern craftsmen of the subject of
gossip have names like Ted Casablanca
(pseudonym of Bruce Bibby), whose
apparitions space from the television (" The Gossip Show") to the
printed publication paper (" Premiere" that now it has abandoned,
" Enterteinment Weekly"): grown in a closed atmosphere and wretch,
cinematographic ironic bad escapes to an alcoholic destiny becoming gossipper
and. And to throw mud on Hollywood, to pact of having the courage and l'
ability in order to make it, continues to being much profitable one, in
particular for Mike Walker, other " columnist" that it has made of the
journalism-trash its flag, the whose novel " Malicious Intent" ,
centralized exactly on the lownesses and the human degradation of the mecca of
the cinema American, happening has had a sure one. But enough to give un'
glance to the underbrush of the persons who live or have lived on the myth of
Hollywood in order to find tens and tens of other names: Sheilah Graham (loving
of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Rona Barrett (specialized in history on Elvis
Presley), David Freeman, George Christy (recently accused of essre be bought
from the producers yearnings to see their films cited in its articles), Troy
Soren, Cora Harper, Jimmy Starr…
source : http://www.film.it/film/notizie/hollywood-fautori-del-gossip
