FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda, she knew that they were unlikely to remain together but she was satisfied to be with him for however long it would be, and she had used him, too, in […]

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FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here he was in location in Montana, preparing to go on set, and he was drawn to the mirror; not out of narcissism, or some lunatic hope that he would see […]

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