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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
going to see tomorrow, next week and next month. The news is always the same : one of your friends is getting divorced, another is getting married again, another has had a flop, a fourth has been nominated for the Academy Award this year.
I will not deny that many of the citizens are happy and contented with their life. They are the people who are self-sufficient, who can get all their "kicks" from their own company, or those who are born suburbanites or those who are exclusively interested in sex, alcohol and money.
You may wonder, if Hollywood is really as dull as I paint it, why so many actors should strive so hard to get there.
The answer is that Hollywood can seem exciting when you first arrive. When your income has risen in a short time from £70 to £700 a week you are apt to find life thrilling in whatever environment you find yourself. It will be two years before you have met everyone. When you first hear it Hollywood small-talk has a novel tang; and first time round, Hollywood society can be amusing,
There are, of course, stars who would strenuously deny everything I have said about Hollywood being dull. To a Diana Dors it is obviously the Promised Land.
It all comes down to this: there are people whose various needs — physical, psychological, financial and social — happen to coincide with what Hollywood has to give. They can be happy there.
My encounters with those who did not want any longer what it had to give revealed a certain amount about the sort of place Hollywood is today.
I think it should be equally enlightening to consider now some of the people who want what it has to give sufficiently to uproot themselves and make their pilgrimage to this Meccano-Mecca. We may find a few more deadly sins in the process.
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