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Lucky wants to become a part of Hollywood by buying a movie studio from the powerful Abe Panther, but when he insists she prove her worth, she goes undercover as a secretary to to discover just how the business works. She soon discovers that power struggles, sexual liaisons, and backstabbing are at the core of the industry she hopes to dominate, none of which discourages Lucky from embracing the glamorous, morally questionable world that is Hollywood.

Lord Bryron becomes a vampire when visiting Greece.

D. H. Lawrence's most controversial novel was published in Florence in 1928 by one of his friends, and in Paris the next year. Because of its overt sexuality and liberal use of four-letter words, LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was declared obscene and actually went to trial; the complete text did not appear in England until 1960. The novel tells the impassioned story of Lady Constance Chatterley, who is married to Sir Clifford, a wealthy man left a paraplegic after World War I--now an intellectual who ignores her. She finds love and sexual fulfillment--graphically and lyrically described--with her husband's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. This landmark novel epitomizes Lawrence's belief in the overriding legitimacy of sexual passion as an antidote to the cold and conventional values of a modern industrial society--and, in fact, to the life of the intellect, an attitude that has brought Lawrence as many detractors as admirers. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER may not be Lawrence's best novel in terms of characterization or subtlety, and--for all the novel's radical sexual realism--the narrative harks back to the novels of the Victorian era. But it is certainly his most notorious work.