Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Mr. Confidential by Samuel Bernstein

Mr. Confidential: The Man, His Magazine & The Movieland Massacre That Changed Hollywood Forever
by Samuel Bernstein
2006,  Walford Press

Biography of Robert Harrison, publisher of scandal magazine Confidential, as played by Danny DeVito in LA Confidential. Not much to it, and if you came for the gossip there's a running theme that the scandals were mundane. The only piece new to me was Orson Welles allegedly being a biter.

A lot of page length went towards redeeming Confidential for breaking through taboos and social barriers, and minimizing Harrison being a scumbag. Enough here for a decent article, but not enough meat on the bone for 300+ pages.

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