Jody Mckeegen

I believe that the scene from chapter 10 connects to Hollywood because of the lifestyle, the dynamic of the relationship between Lindy and Quentin vs. Quentin and her mother.  The thrill and risk that she finds sneaking around with Quentin though she knows that it is wrong and she is remorseful towards it is similar to the Hollywood thrill during the 70's of a showbiz life of drugs & sleeping around to almost climb your way up.  Though Lindy isn't exactly climbing her way up, in a sense she is gaining something from Quentin compared to Eddie (that being an education, someone to push her to be better and explore how intelligent she is, or how much she can learn). I think the way that Quentin describes things to her as well, talking about a drunken father beating his children or how the two of them spend 5 out of 7 days a week together is also very Hollywood - all of this can set a scene for a movie, or almost seems like a movie but then again a lot of ideas for movies come out of someone's truth.. The idea that Lindy is sleeping with her mother's boyfriend, is also like a movie plot.  I think it's also sort of Hollywood in the sense that this is so taboo (or at least I believe) for this time period, most families are picture perfect or trying to hold up this image that they are.  Hearing about this and thinking about the setting that it is in is like that point in a movie where you gasp and hold you're breath because you are in disbelief at what just happened.