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'American Dream Machine' Captures a Human Side of Hollywood

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Hollywood has inspired plenty of writers, from Joan Didion to Harold Robbins and Gore Vidal. Author Matthew Specktor didn't have to look far for his inspiration -- he grew up in Hollywood with two parents working in and around the film industry. The California Report's book critic Oscar Villalon says Specktor's new novel, "American Dream Machine," goes beyond Hollywood's underbelly of ambition and greed.

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