Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Mickey Cohen: The Mob Goes Hollywood" video.
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I collect vintage books on Hollywood, dating and beauty, and am tracking this down, thanks!! I have been planning to write a book for years on Hollywood's early assault on reforming unattractive women and turning them into stars (or just looking like one!). By the thirties, there were many beauty vultures with questionable skills charging studios and stars huge amounts to "transform" them. Gloria Swansen was a pioneer of "clean" eating after being influenced by a internist in New York and felt so much better she famously showed up at huge formal dinner parties with her own paper bag of food, which she spent inordinate amounts of time harassing her dinner partners, informing them all about what pigs they were and how much damage they were doing to their looks and health. She was often right, but boring as hell to eat with, and was often avoided! She was an amazing, very modern woman in many ways, light years ahead of her time, but didn't understand packaging her ideas. Still, she outlasted most and would have been a massive influencer today....
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@Brett-yq7pj
I agree with you, but I'm not competing, just locating different sources, which is of historical significance to me personally. I love tracking history and finding different people I've never heard of before! As a writer and voracious reader, it's an absorbing hobby. At least, to me!
I was fascinated when I learned that slaves were often not allowed to talk to each other while they worked on big plantations, because the overseers were afraid of their plotting uprisings, but they were allowed to sing christian music, so they began to incorporate into the music and lyrics news and information for and about each other. The same happened when the men worked laying railroad tracks. The "call and response" style birthed an entire new kind of music, that influences it to this day. I find that amazing. In the Appalachian mountains, there was an effort to record that music, as it was completely different than anything else, and we end up with the great Johnny Cash! Cool..
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