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One of Hollywood’s first scandals was nearly its last. 1936
looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With
the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans
everywhere were sitting in the dark watching the stars—and few
stars shined as brightly as one of America’s most enduring screen
favorites, Mary Astor. But Astor’s story wasn’t a happy one.
She was born poor, and at the first sign that she could earn money,
her parents grabbed the reins and the checks. Widowed at
twenty-four, Mary Astor was looking for stability when she met and
wed Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. But the marriage was rocky from the start;
both were unfaithful, but they did not divorce until after Mary
Astor gave birth to little Marylyn Thorpe. What followed was a
custody battle that pushed The Spanish Civil War and Hitler’s
1936 Olympic Games off of the front pages all over America. Astor
and Thorpe were both ruthless in their fight to gain custody of
their daughter, but Thorpe held a trump card: the diaries that Mary
Astor had been keeping for years. In these diaries, Astor detailed
her own affairs as well as the myriad dalliances of some of
Hollywood’s biggest names. The studio heads, longtime controllers
of public perception, were desperate to keep such juicy details
from leaking. With the complete support of the Astor family,
including unlimited access to the photographs and memorabilia of
Mary Astor’s estate, The Purple Diaries is a look at
Hollywood’s Golden Age as it has never been seen before, as Egan
spins a wildly absorbing yarn about a scandal that threatened to
bring down the dream factory known as Hollywood.
The collection of Joelle and Pierre Clement includes Australian
painters whose work draws on Aboriginal culture and traditions.
This catalog by Kunsthaus Zug features 80 works by 50 artists from
the collection, as well as paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The
image and text contributions allow for an in-depth examination of
the color-intensive, supposedly abstract painting and shed light on
the diverse artistic positions as well as the different peoples and
regions of Central Australia. With their "dot paintings," the
painters translate their millennia-old culture between traditional
mythology and postcolonial reality into fascinating images created
for international viewers. The publication brings together 50
painters, including established names such as Kathleen Petyarre and
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, as well as lesser-known positions.
One focus is on the works of EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (1910-1996).
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