The Sages moved home, adopting a less eccentric style of life in a new, easy-to-clean, open-plan council house.

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Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press.

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Vivian, in true Hollywood style, is swept away by her new lover, amidst the promise of a brand new life of luxury and bliss.

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