The Human Hollywood

The LA fires bring to mind the less rarefied side of the stars.

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I have never set foot in California, but as I watched the awful, authentically apocalyptic images this week of Los Angeles overtaken by fire and smoke, I could not help but react with something like heartache.

Scenes of such grave devastation would be shocking no matter where they occurred...