Monday, July 20, 2015

I, Fatty

This was a great fictionalized account of the poor maligned Roscoe Arbuckle, silent film star of the early days of Hollywood who was falsely accused of raping and murdering a girl named Virginia Rappe. Roscoe endured three trials, the first two ending in hung juries, before finally being acquitted in the third one. Unfortunately the damage to his reputation was done, and while Roscoe tried hard to get back into Tinseltown's good graces, he didn't have powerful enough friends to do so. It was a great story, well told by author Jerry Stahl.

No comments: