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And yet, no one responded to me. No one responded. It was also the inspiration Stevens needed to honor his late mother and her complicated experience working in entertainment a different way. Desperate for money, the young mother arrived in Hollywood from Yazoo City, Mississippi โ and faced significant stigma after taking nude photos for Playboy. The stand-in Stella quotes old print interviews alongside new conversations with historians, journalists, and other film experts.
And then there were others, like Quentin Tarantino , who just went off on whatever tangent he wanted. Tarantino currently resides in Israel with his wife, Daniella Pick. In the documentary, he recalls getting annoyed as a kid when Elvis once ruffled his hair. She was ballsy and bodacious. She was her own woman.
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