YMMV / The Fade Out

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The book is filled with outrageous and bizarre but true life things about Hollywood in its Golden Age.
  • A studio head actually did have a backdoor to every starlet's closet and how Bette Davis almost stabbed him for it.
  • Some blacklisted screenwriters really did use non-blacklisted ones to write material in order to make a living. They were also called "fronts."
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The story is absolutely devastating in its abuses of power and doesn't provide any catharsis.