From pancakes with Jack Nicholson to drinks with Billy Wilder – stories from the great and good of Tinseltown
Photograph: Palace Nova EastendPhotograph: Palace Nova Eastendhe American Film Institute is where Hollywood’s collective memory lives. Anyone who was anyone, from Harold Lloyd to Barbra Streisand, has had their brain hoovered and the results transcribed and deposited in the AFI’s vaults for safekeeping.
This attitude of making the best of things extended in all directions. There’s a section on the coming of thein the late 1920s – that censorious set of rules designed to purge Hollywood of its incipient bathtub-gin sleaziness. Now no one could get naked on screen, kiss with tongues or impugn someone else’s mother.
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