I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera,

Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947,

All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

took me to Hollywood

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.