Schlagwort: Red Carpet

Of all the peo­ple not to upset at last night’s BRIT Awards, one of them must have been Madon­na – one of the biggest stars in the world – dur­ing her big come­back per­for­mance. Tabloid in long-form, Anger details the scan­dals of Tinseltown’s very first stars (includ­ing Rudolph Valenti­no, Roscoe Arbuck­le, and Clara Bow) against the back­drop of a city charged by ram­pant debauch­ery and high glam­our. Where­as Hol­ly­wood Baby­lon deals most­ly with the era’s nightlife, the work­day habits of ear­ly film stars were pret­ty wild too. For our pur­pos­es, it’s all about the prep. Hence a lit­tle his­to­ry les­son today, particularly…