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Indecent Exposures

Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Notorious Scandal Magazine

By Samantha Barbas, Chicago Review Press, $27.99

FOR A BRIEF SPELL IN THE 1950S, FOLLOWING THE PEAK OF paranoia unleashed by HUAC’s terrorizing tactics, a tawdry gossip rag called kept Hollywood looking over its shoulder. Samantha Barbas’s book offers a

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