"The vision of Los Angeles as a dream factory, where everything is shiny and soul-crushingly empty, reworks Hollywood as Moloch, the who devours his own children. Even LA-born , who cleverly chronicled the city in the sixties and seventies, recapitulates the usual conventions. Here is composer , a woman who famously played chess against Marcel Duchamp during his first retrospective in the United States in (he was clothed, she was nude; both understood the power of the ), kissing off her hometown with the quip that "people with brains went to New York and people with faces came to Los Angeles.""
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