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Hollywood: The Oral History

By Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

Faber & Faber, £25, hardback, 768 pages

Drawing on the American Film Institute's vast repository of oral-history testimony spanning more than five decades, this tour through Tinseltown's past focuses on the reminiscences of a suitably stellar cast of contributors. Some are familiar names, including

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