Seductively plotted, crazily wellwritten, and wholly gripping, this book at once gallops headlong and stops you in your tracks with a truthsperpage quotient that is off the chartslaserfine insights into how we love, leave, gamble. In this entertainment industry expose, andrew breitbart and mark ebner pull back the curtain to reveal the twisted culture of hollywood and the preposterous penchants of todays highprofile celebrities. Ebner is a left wing journalist from venice and his cowriter breitbart is a right wing drudge guy. Dec 17, 2012 mark ebner is the best investigative journalist around. Hollywood, interrupted describes the misogynist, pillpopping degenerates who now define american culture. However, if it is proven to be a scilon owned front which is squelching free speech for the purpose of scientology, it might be alright. In 2004, he and a coauthor, mark ebner, published a book, hollywood, interrupted, a catalogue of moviestar dysfunction. Hollywood, interrupted, insanity chic in babylon the case. In fact, its the only entertainment industry book ever written by true rebel outsiders from completely different political standpoints. Mark ebner is the best investigative journalist around. The organization sent rolling stone a damning dossier on ebner and the story was spiked.
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