A review by bunnieslikediamonds
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann

3.0

Movie people skulking around a murder scene, hiding paperwork while the cops are downstairs. A grandmother traveling through multiple states to furtively toss her daughter's gun into a swamp. Reporters kidnapping a murder witness, driving him to a graveyard and trying to elicit information by scaring him with a ghost, who turns out to be a mobster under a white sheet. These and many other surprising things apparently took place in Hollywood in the 20's, all caused by the murder of director William Desmond Taylor (which of course was sad and horrible). With so much insanity I was surprised I wasn't more amused. Maybe it was the Zukor parts. Really didn't care for him.