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The Bastard of Beverly Hills

In The Bastard of Beverly Hills, author Rafael Moscatel shares the heartbreaking true story of being given up for adoption by a renowned family of musicians, a decades-long odyssey to tear down the web of lies that kept him from uncovering their lurid past, and his inspiring journey back home— to a place he could finally feel comfortable in his own skin.

Beverly Thrills: 12 Famous Faces Past & Present
Several celebrity stories didn't make it into The Bastard of Beverly Hills. …
Lost Secrets of The Addams Family
Die-hard fans of The Addams Family probably know that Vic Mizzy composed …
Recipe For Disaster: The Year Tony Roma Married My Mom
In The Bastard of Beverly Hills, I tell a crazy story about …
Michael Landon’s Secret Best Friends
Actor Michael Landon, best known for his portrayal of Charles Ingalls on …
The Mysterious Origin of Albert Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie
What made my journey through the aftermath of Albert's tragedy even more …
My Sephardic Roots: From the Isle of Rhodes to Rodeo Drive
I'm German and Askenazi by birth, but as a baby, I was …
If These Walls Could Talk: A Century of Scandals and Secrets Behind the Oldest House in Beverly Hills
When Beverly Hills was still nothing but a bean field, only one …
Blockchain For The Common Good
Most people associate blockchain with cryptocurrency, and the buzz around distributed ledger …
The Bildungsroman and the Transformation of a Literary Genre
Explorations of emotional development, self-formation, and coming-of-age themes are universal and timeless …
The Man Who Would Be King: Rudyard Kipling, Freemasonry and the Perils of New Historicism
Rudyard Kipling was revered as a literary giant in his lifetime. His …
Lovin’ The Prufrock: Celebrating 108 Years of T.S. Eliot’s Modernist Masterpiece
In literature like Prufrock, modernists often recycled myths and other masterworks to …
Remembering Alain Locke: Dean of America’s Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke (1885-1954), an essayist, professor, and, notably, the first Black Rhodes …

Little Girl with the Big Voice

A mesmerizing documentary about the tragic life of the iconic Mary Small, a child prodigy, radio singer, and Broadway star whose moxie and resilience made her a defining symbol of the Greatest Generation. Despite her success as one of the most recognizable performers of the Golden Age and a fifty-year career in show business, she disappeared into obscurity, died penniless, and was buried in an unmarked grave. This revealing biography by her long-lost grandson breathes life into the obituary she never received yet so richly deserved.


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