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Carpetbaggers, The
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Power and sex are at the heart of this adaptation of Harold Robbins’s soap opera bestseller, set in the 1930s and loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes. George Peppard stars as Jonas, a hard-drinking young aircraft tycoon who starts going off the deep end when his tyrannical father (Leif Erikson) dies. After reclaiming the girl his father stole from him (Carroll Baker), Jonas starts producing movies–at first to help his old friend, a silent-film star struggling to make the transition to sound (Alan Ladd) but eventually to placate his out of control ego. After numerous failed marriages and ever-worsening alcoholism, Jonas finally makes an effort to face the demons of his past, but it may be too late.Director Edward Dmytryk (THE YOUNG LIONS, RAINTREE COUNTY) enlivens this sprawling film with his sense of character and period detail. Peppard is fine as the lead, and Alan Ladd unusually accessible as the aging cowboy star, Nevada Smith. The women in the cast, though, have little to do except manipulate the men for money and sex. Fans of this sort of thing, however, should find such shallowness merely part of the racy, sudsy fun.
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The Carpetbaggers
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Discusses the Reconstruction Era, the name of the period following the Civil War, and the citizens who moved from the Northern to the Southern United States, known as carpetbaggers, and their …
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Carpetbaggers
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Extremely limited seven inch white vinyl pressing of the first single lifted from the Rilo Kiley vocalist’s 2008 solo album Acid Tongue. The A-side is Jenny Lewis’ vivacious toe-tapping ‘Carpetbaggers’ featuring a stunning contribution from Elvis Costello’s legendary vocal tones. The B-side, ‘Go Away’, is a Costello track with Jenny on backing vocals. This is a charity single with the record label donating a proportion of profits to the Jazz Foundation, set up to offer New Orleans post-flooding support. Rough Trade.
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What are the best novels of all waste of time?
My favorites are the Valley of the Dolls by Jackie Sussan and The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins. Anyone care to add your favorites?
Now, both are good suggestions. In fact, the Valley of the Dolls is the first that comes to mind. (* I do not know if I'm going to say Ten is a failure, but I wonder-do-what he thought of him if I read it now.) What about Peyton Alexander Archipenko Place? That we form the bill and was the first "soap opera" style book. The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon would be appropriate. "Amber" by Kathleen Winsor was considered quite scandalous in its time. He is old, but keeps well. I read without probably ten years ago, and speaks of a woman who slept your way to the top … King Charles II. *** Edit: This is cheating, since I saw the film, but I have not read the book, but best of all by Rona Jaffe is another story I had up there. If the book is even half as much fun as the film is an enjoyable novel of poor quality. *** Ten, I'm with you on drugs in the valley of the dolls. Tom Jones and The Lady Chatterley's Lover are good, indeed. -It is about fun. It also puts me in a state of mind of one of these goodies away. 
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