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Moguls and other Hollywood monsters

Jean Stein’s collection of Tinseltown tittle-tattle is moderately interesting, unpleasantly salacious and largely unsourced

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

West of Eden: An American Place Jean Stein

Cape, pp.334, £20, ISBN: 9780224102469

This is a very odd book that Jean Stein has compiled — about the evanescent splendour of Los Angeles, which only occasionally touches on the film industry. Its setting’s most memorable landmark appears to be the name of one of its districts, written in enormous white letters on a hillside.

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