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Bogart makes silly toasts in ParisHollywood goes on beating the Nazis
Chapter 33
But Hollywood won’t take a vacation even after John and Humphrey have won the war,
2Which they will do, of course,
3With just a little bit of help from a very photogenic B-17 crew made up of an wItalian from the South Bronx, a blond xfarm boy from Iowa, a short yJew from Brooklyn, a zcracker from Alabama, and a brawling aaMick from Boston.
4In fact, motion-picture directors will start making more movies about real problems that maybe can’t be completely solved in an hour and a half,
5bbSuch as the problems the B-17 crew will have when it comes home,
6And can’t find a job,
7Or a house,
8Or much of anything else,
9aBecause the capitalist system is so selfish,
10bAnd causes little people to get it in the neck,
11No matter how much they’ve contributed to society,
12cEven if what they’ve contributed is the best years of their lives.
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