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@ScreamingRevPod "so there are all these references to platinum blondes in Shadow Ticket and that's worth diving into for a second 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵"
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"the term "platinum blonde" was actually cooked up by Howard Hughes' PR team. The period formula to achieve this shade was a mixture ammonia Clorox bleach and Lux soap flakes. this along with binge-drinking of dubious Prohibition-era liquor killed Harlow by the age of 26"
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"Unilever would also produce the long-running Lux Radio Theater one of the origins for the term "soap opera" & produced a radio adaptation of The Thin Man (1934) itself an adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett novel. Hammett's works have been a huge inspiration for Shadow Ticket"
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"Charlie Parker in Gravity's Rainbow vs his possible appearance in Shadow Ticket. Around the time ST is set Parker would have been in his earliest years of sax playing; by 1936 he was playing abortive early jams with Basie's band (mentioned in the very same paragraph of ST)"
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"Lux Soap is actually owned by Unilever who're mentioned earlier in Shadow Ticket as basically turning the midwestern cheese industry into a wasteland"
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"silent film star Louise Brookes also starred in advertisements for Lux and she's also mentioned in Shadow Ticket"
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