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Article: Movie review: The Black Dahlia **: 'Black Dahlia': Murder cloaked in cliches.(Movie review)
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2006
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Byline: Christopher Borrelli
Sep. 15--Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia tells the seediest, most cynical, and dream-crushing of true-life Hollywood legends. Or rather, the nastiest one from the 1940s. (OK, the late '40s.)
Though the film is fictional -- actually, a ludicrous pile of too many fictions, after an eye-popping good start -- the murder case on which it's based is ingrained in Los Angeles lore. I remember attending a Halloween party there years ago and a couple arrived dressed as the Black Dahlia.
He was the lower half.
She was the upper half.
Thing is, "Black Dahlia" was the nickname newspapers gave to 22-year-old ...