| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 34 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Bronson Pinchot. |
| Summary |
On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift-"the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies"-tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but "cineautistic," sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesn't understand. Over the course of the seventies and into the eighties, he pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks, and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Fiction.
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982488031 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982488034 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11241317 |
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