A Real Cinderella's Painful Past
Bruce WeberNovember 1, 2002: ''HOLLYWOOD ARMS'' is the story of a girl who spends a troubled childhood in a seedy apartment almost literally in the shadow cast by Hollywood lights, but grows up to become a star. It is, in other words, a Hollywood story in every sense of the word, an irony-free American dreamscape of the sort that the movies so love to fabricate and the world so loves to swallow.
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