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by Joshua Gamson (Author) "It is, we are sure," wrote the editor of the movie fan magazine Silver Screen in the 1930s, "impossible to be great part of the..." (more)
Key Phrases: celebrity text, suburban white woman, celebrity manufacture, Entertainment Tonight, Los Angeles, Rolling Stone (more...)
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