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Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.
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It's about five o'clock in the morning.
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That's the homicide squad, complete
with detectives and newspapermen.
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A murder's been reported from one
of those houses in the 10000 block.
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You'll read about it
in the late editions.
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You'll get it over your radio
and on television,
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because an old-time star is involved,
one of the biggest.
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But before you hear it all distorted
and blown out of proportion,
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before those Hollywood
columnists get their hands on it,
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maybe you'd like to hear the facts,
the whole truth.
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If so, you've come to the right party.
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The body of a young man was found
in the pool of her mansion,
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with two shots in his back and one
in his stomach. Nobody important.
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Just a writer with a couple
of B-pictures to his credit.
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The poor dope!
He always wanted a pool.
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In the end, he got himself a pool,
only the price turned out a little high.
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Let's go back about six months
and find the day when it all started.
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I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and Ivar.
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Things were tough at the moment.
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I hadn't worked
in a studio for a long time.
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So I sat there grinding out
original stories, two a week.
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Only I seemed to have lost my touch.