Hollywood's Silent Closet provides a banquet of information about the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, compiled from eyewitness interviews with men and women, all of them insiders, who flourished in its midst. Not for the timid, it names names and doesn't spare the guilty. If you believe, like Truman Capote, that the literary treatment of gossip will become the literature of the 21st century, then you will love Hollywood's Silent Closet. Hollywood's Silent Closet is a vivid portrait of the decadent, homosexual, and gossipy world of pre-talkie Hollywood. It's an Info-Novel where 90% of everything in it is true. It represents the greatest collection of star-studded scandal ever assembled on the film stars of Hollywood's Silent Era. Valentino, Ramon Novarro, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Nazimova, and many others figure into eyewitness accounts of the debauched excesses that went on behind closed doors. It also documents the often tragic endings of America's first screen idols, some of whom admitted to being more famous than the monarchs of England and Jesus Christ combined. Many of the interviews that went into the compilation of this book were conducted between 1940 and 1974, as the subjects were nearing the end of their lives and were willing, at last, to reveal scandals and insights that had previously been repressed by their own fears and by the media machines of the studio system. Marriages of convenience are the norm as intra-male peccadillos (and lots of lesbian love, too) are swept under the potted palms of the Edwardian age. The hero of this tale is the amiably cross-dressing Durango Jones, a wide-eyed neophyte from Kansas, circa 1919, whohits Hollywood during its Pre-Code excesses, and stays for a sexual feast wherein the banquet consists of many of the era's most flamboyant sex symbols. And although technically, this title has been formatted as a novel rather than a straight-line biography, there's the sometimes disturbing sense that this book is genuinely historical as well as being a jolly and rollicking piece of very savvy entertainment. This is high-testosterone Hollywood at its most compulsively readable. The 60s didn't invent sex-the stars of the Silent Screen did. --Cruiser. Who slept with Mary Pickford's three husbands, her two brothers-in-law, and even her brother? The hero of Hollywood's Silent Closet, that's who --Trova Roma.
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说实话,我一开始对这类题材抱有很高的期待,但又担心会落入俗套,无非又是揭露一些陈年旧闻的八卦集锦。然而,这本书彻底颠覆了我的预期。它巧妙地避开了那些低级的爆料,转而关注于权力结构内部的运作逻辑以及那些在体制下被牺牲掉的“无名之辈”。故事的布局宏大,横跨了几十年,将好莱坞从默片时代到有声电影时代的变迁,作为历史背景板,衬托出个体命运的渺小与挣扎。最让我印象深刻的是作者构建的那个复杂的社会网络,每一个看似不经意的角色,最终都会在某个时刻与核心冲突产生关联,这种精密的“蝴蝶效应”设计,简直令人拍案叫绝。阅读过程中,我感觉自己不是在看小说,而是在解开一个历史谜团,需要不断地梳理时间线索和人物关系。虽然信息量巨大,但作者的功力在于,即便是那些复杂的派系斗争和商业博弈,都被清晰地梳理了出来,让读者始终能跟上节奏,甚至比故事中的角色更早一步地预见到某些阴谋的走向。
评分这本书的节奏感和电影感简直要溢出纸面了!如果你喜欢那种充满戏剧张力和视觉冲击力的叙事方式,那么你一定会爱上它。作者似乎深谙如何利用“留白”和“暗示”来制造悬念。有些场景的描写非常具有画面感,仿佛直接拉了几个特写镜头过来——比如特定光线下某人脸上的阴影,或者某一扇紧闭的房门,这些细节的堆叠,营造出一种持续不断的、压抑的氛围。情节发展上,它并不急于给出答案,而是通过一系列精心布置的“闪回”和“旁观者证词”来慢慢拼凑真相,这种碎片化的叙事方式极大地增强了阅读的代入感和探索欲。我尤其欣赏作者对声音的运用,通过对环境噪音、低语、甚至是沉默的细致描写,成功地渲染出一种舞台剧般的紧张感。阅读时,我仿佛能听到那些窃窃私语,感受到空气中弥漫的紧张气息,心脏也跟着情节的推进时而加速时而放缓。它不是那种轻松愉快的读物,而是一部需要全身心投入去解码的智力游戏。
评分这部作品给我带来的最大震撼,在于它对“表演”这一主题的深刻挖掘。它探讨的远不止是银幕上的表演,而是生活中每一个人都在进行的、为了生存和体面而不得不戴上的面具。作者以极其冷静甚至略带疏离的笔调,剖析了那些光环下的个体是如何在公众形象与私密自我之间进行痛苦的权衡与撕裂。这种对虚伪和真实界限模糊的探讨,在当代社会背景下依然具有强烈的警示意义。角色的内心独白充满了哲学思辨,对“身份认同”和“公众凝视”的批判性思考,让这本书超越了单纯的娱乐范畴,上升到了对现代社会病态的深刻反思。我特别欣赏它那种近乎残忍的诚实,敢于揭示那些美好表象下腐烂的根基,且不带任何说教意味,只是冷静地呈现事实。读完后,我开始重新审视我所接触到的每一个人,思考他们隐藏在得体微笑之下的真实面目。这是一部需要沉思的作品,它要求读者不仅要用眼睛看,更要用心去感受其下涌动的暗流。
评分天呐,我必须得说,这本书的文学性是毋庸置疑的,它的语言风格有一种古典的优雅和现代的犀利交织在一起的奇妙效果。我很少看到一部作品能将如此华丽的辞藻运用得如此恰到好处,既不显得矫揉造作,又能精准地烘托出人物内心的波澜壮阔。叙事视角频繁地在不同人物之间切换,但每一次切换都如同转动了一个棱镜,从新的角度折射出同一事件的不同侧面,那种多维度的观察让人对“真相”这个概念产生了深刻的怀疑。作者对于心理描写的细腻程度,简直让我感到有点不适——不是贬义,而是那种过于真实的洞察力让人无法躲避。比如,当主角面对一个巨大的道德困境时,书中对那种生理上的挣扎、心跳加速、手心出汗的描写,都达到了近乎于小说家本人的“沉浸式体验”。我花了很长时间去细细品味那些长句和排比,它们像音乐的变奏一样,推动着情节向前发展,却又在关键时刻戛然而止,留下无尽的回味空间。这本书对文学爱好者来说,绝对是一场不容错过的盛宴,值得反复研读,每一次都会有新的感悟。
评分这部作品简直是一场感官的盛宴,作者对细节的把握达到了令人咋舌的程度。故事围绕着一个年轻的记者深入探访好莱坞黄金时代的那些被尘封的秘密展开,每一个转折都像是精心设计好的机关,在你以为猜到结局时,又被推向一个全新的迷宫。特别是对那个年代电影制作幕后场景的描摹,那种胶片的气味、摄影棚里炽热的灯光,甚至是对那些老派明星微妙的肢体语言和眼神交流的捕捉,都栩栩如生,让人仿佛置身其中,呼吸着那个时代的空气。叙事节奏张弛有度,时而如同一部紧张刺激的悬疑片,将那些光鲜外表下的阴影层层剥开;时而又回归到对人性深处的探讨,关于梦想、背叛与救赎。我尤其欣赏作者对于道德灰色地带的处理,没有简单粗暴的善恶标签,而是将每一个角色都塑造成一个复杂矛盾的个体,他们的选择,无论多么惊世骇俗,背后都有着无可辩驳的时代背景或个人创伤作为支撑。读完后劲十足,合上书本,脑海中仍然回荡着那些未解的耳语和那些老照片上定格的、带着一丝哀愁的微笑。这本书不仅仅是讲述了一个故事,更像是一份对往昔光影世界的深刻致敬与解构。
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