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- catalog abstract ""Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle found adulation first in vaudeville, and then in the new medium of the cinema. In his day, during the second decade of the 1900s, Fatty was more popular than Chaplin; he became the first screen actor to make a million dollars a year. But in 1921 he was accused of the rape and murder of actress Virginia Rappe, whom he encountered at a party in San Francisco and who died a few days later. Though he was eventually acquitted by a unanimous jury, the virulent speculation by the press ultimately destroyed Arbuckle's career. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, and demonized by conservative powers that hyped the case as emblematic of all the evils of show business, Fatty Arbuckle was the first modern celebrity whose presumed guilt - and alleged innocence - galvanized a nation." "In I, Fatty, Jerry Stahl, the author of Permanent Midnight, tells the story from Fatty's own perspective. This is a portrait of a comic genius whose rise and fall set the precedent for the scandals that still shake Hollywood today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13314437.
- catalog coverage "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle found adulation first in vaudeville, and then in the new medium of the cinema. In his day, during the second decade of the 1900s, Fatty was more popular than Chaplin; he became the first screen actor to make a million dollars a year. But in 1921 he was accused of the rape and murder of actress Virginia Rappe, whom he encountered at a party in San Francisco and who died a few days later. Though he was eventually acquitted by a unanimous jury, the virulent speculation by the press ultimately destroyed Arbuckle's career.".
- catalog description "Framed for a crime he didn't commit, and demonized by conservative powers that hyped the case as emblematic of all the evils of show business, Fatty Arbuckle was the first modern celebrity whose presumed guilt - and alleged innocence - galvanized a nation." "In I, Fatty, Jerry Stahl, the author of Permanent Midnight, tells the story from Fatty's own perspective. This is a portrait of a comic genius whose rise and fall set the precedent for the scandals that still shake Hollywood today."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "280 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1582342474".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck,".
- catalog spatial "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 22".
- catalog subject "Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Comedians Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture industry Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3569.T3125 I15 2004".
- catalog subject "Trials (Murder) Fiction.".
- catalog title "I, Fatty : a novel / Jerry Stahl.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".