The art of the opening hook
Dec. 14th, 2007 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Depending on who you believe, Edmund Goulding either died from a heart attack or by suicide in 1959 following a depraved life of bisexual adventurism."
-- Lawrence Russell on Nightmare Alley
Alas, the rest of the piece doesn't live up to the first line.
-- Lawrence Russell on Nightmare Alley
Alas, the rest of the piece doesn't live up to the first line.
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Date: 2007-12-15 06:58 am (UTC)And nowhere in the piece does he even mention (except in the header credits) the author of the novel the film is based on, whose life and death were equally weird.
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