{"id":839,"date":"2010-11-02T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:44:44","slug":"a-history-of-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/a-history-of-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Hollywood…and"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the new TCM documentary,\u00a0Moguls & Movie Stars<\/em><\/a>. The first installment of seven, Peepshow Pioneers<\/em>, illuminated that the forerunners to motion pictures, called magic-lantern shows, dated back to the late 1600s and detailed the earliest days of “modern” film making.<\/p>\n

I have just read an excellent and compelling book, The Deeds of My Fathers<\/a>.<\/em> A family memoir written by a grandson, the first part is about a poor and ruthless immigrant boy, Generoso Pope<\/a>, who became a business titan and major political power in the 1920s until his death in 1950 — while befriended by mob boss Frank Costello and supporting Mussolini. The second part focuses on his son, Gene Pope, Jr.<\/a> Originally financed by Costello, he created the National Enquirer<\/em>. As Frank Costello was also a mentor of Hollywood gangster Mickey Cohen, about whom I have just completed a forthcoming book, MICKEY COHEN:The Life and Crimes of L.A.s Notorious Mobster<\/em>, the story I tell and this are broadly interlinked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the new TCM documentary,\u00a0Moguls & Movie Stars. The first installment of seven, Peepshow Pioneers, illuminated that the forerunners to motion pictures, called magic-lantern shows, dated back to the late 1600s and detailed the earliest days of “modern” film making. I have just read an excellent and compelling book, The Deeds of My Fathers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[5935,5245,7607,10355,2017,5235],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-frank-costello","tag-mickey-cohen","tag-mickey-cohen-the-life-and-crimes-of-l-a-s-notorious-mobster-by-tere-tereba","tag-national-enquirer","tag-tcm","tag-tere-tereba","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}