These days I've been reading a book on the life of actor Bela Lugosi. He led the kind of life that would make for the ultimate "E!True Hollywood Story". He made "Dracula" back in 1931 and became the most recognizable movie star in the world. He then made a series of bad decisions and he ended up a drug addict making the worst movies imaginable ("Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla"). It is a tragic story but a truly interesting one. And once feels for the man, a nice person that showed how fleeting fame can be. Ironically, after he died he received the recognition of film historians. You may remember Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" and Martin Landau's Oscar-winning portrayal of Lugosi.
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