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"I could only come to the deduction...." Is that expression grammatitionally correct?
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"I could only come to the deduction...." Is that expression grammatitionally correct?
Makes me think this thing was self-published.
By the by, I have requested this book by interlibrary loan.
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Received today.
Interlibrary loan is our friend! 
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The best thing about this book is how it shows the bizarre, byzantine world that working Hollywood (at the highest salary levels, anyway) is.
Bizarre, as in
---A working lunch at the fabulous home of Robert Evans, attended by servants and using the finest tableware and linens, and they're being served hamburgers, hot dogs and french fries.
---Harold Lloyd's bet with a certain zillionaire, his "librarian", the room he REALLY lived in and seven-year Christmas tree.
Byzantine
---Jobs are had almost entirely on social connections, and some on very casual recommendation, or EXTREMELY personal opinions.
---Jobs are lost or work is destroyed (e.g., Lambro's CHINATOWN score, Bronislau Kaper's "unsuitability" to do the film) in the same way. [/li]
---Praise is something people seem to give out, ultimately, to make THEMSELVES look better instead of the recipient (everyone was praising Lambro's score up until the preview responses supposedly ca came in
---A film passes through an incredible number of creative hands before it is released and can go through almost as many intepretations.
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But be warned that I had a hard time reading this book, because it seems like it was self-published and so suffers from not having a real editor. The "grammitational" example quoted above is a really good example of how a whole LOT of the book was written, and he repeated a lot of facts over and over.
Plus he addresses the reader as "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury" and himself as "your Humble Court Composer" a lot, which makes a certain point, but gets trite by repetition.
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