The dark heart of Hollywood: glamour, guns and gambling - inside the Mafia's global empire

This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on...

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1. Verfasser: Thompson, Douglas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh [u.a.] Mainstream Publishing 2013
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Zusammenfassung:This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would. In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California's twenty-first-century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing. In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel
Beschreibung:Originally published: 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 20 cm
ISBN:9781780576107
1780576102

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