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...book rakes no muck. Its job is merely to ungild the lily and count its petals. Such subjects as the economics of picture making, Hollywood guilds and labor problems, censorship and the Hays Office, Rosten leaves for a later volume. He says little here about the mass of the 30,000 movie workers and movie makers who live ordinary lives on ordinary incomes. The picture he offers is of the movie colony (producers, actors, directors, writers) and its elite-some 250 people, most of whom earn $75,000 or more a year...
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