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Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins6/28/2023 ![]() Something that never really was – money springs to mind – is gone for ever from the American’s view of England, and now you hear mainly catcalls and complaints. But increasingly, these are the disoriented few. ![]() Henry James dined out on transatlantic discrepancies until they nearly killed him and to this day there is still a kind of American for whom England is an America. Not too long ago lucred Yankee cognoscenti fled the parboiled American plains for the amenities of English civil life. This is simply the most recent turn in what has proved to be one of the greatest tragic-comic intercontinental love stories of all time. ‘If I ever get the choice,’ Michael Moorcock declares, ‘that’s where I would cheerfully end my days.’ ![]() For some time now, there’s been a certain kind of Englishman and woman for whom America, and especially the American West, holds the promise of the lost Indies – for whom there is no greater ambition than to live and die in Santa Monica. ![]() Any boy scout strolling down Sunset Boulevard with his ears unwaxed these days could be forgiven for concluding that America invented Southern California in order to compensate Britain for the loss of Empire. ![]()
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