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...thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited fans he drew must have been stupid, too, if that's what they wanted to see. But they didn't see that Elvis either. Impossibly, like kabuki stagehands, no one saw the paunch and the glitter. Maybe it was mass hypnosis. Maybe it was wishful thinking. But what they saw was miles from what was going on onstage. What they saw was some twenty, twenty-five years ago. What they saw wasn't ridiculous...
...Glitter Dome, Wambaugh...
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...GLITTER DOME by Joseph Wambaugh; Morrow; 299 pages...
...Glitter Dome, the Hollywood detective division is more M*A*S*H unit than police station. Its inmates have one common ambition: survival-from perpetrators and pistols, alcoholism and insanity, suicide and divorce. These are choirboys at the end of the song. Their angst is echoed on the mean streets just below the topiary of Beverly Hills: heroin, child abuse, pornography, snuff films and bizarre murder. When Film Studio Boss Nigel St. Claire is found with two .38-cal. bullets in his face, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn, a couple of Wambaugh's best creations, are called...