![]() ![]() In true noir fashion, a dreadful secret is buried at the core of their lives. ![]() ![]() Nick has written a screenplay with a perfect role for the reclusive actor his charming persistence opens Nakayama's personal Pandora's box, forcing the actor to revisit, in memory and in person, the colleagues with whom he forged a neglected cinematic legacy. In 1964, ambitious young cineaste Nick Bellinger discovers elderly Jun Nakayama - a major star of the silent era - living in obscurity. The result hums with the excitement of Hollywood's pioneer era. Nina Revoyr's The Age of Dreaming ( Akashic Press, $15.95, 327 pages) elegantly entwines an ersatz version of film star Sessue Hayakawa's life with the unsolved murder of 1920s film director William Desmond Taylor. ![]()
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