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Chapter 1: Who is Dr. Ronald Dante?
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We open in a disco on a rainy night in Hollywood in 1969. In 1969, disco hadn't officially arrived in America yet. But this was Hollywood, where everywhere you looked was the future.
The Daisy Club, it's a little private club in Beverly Hills. It was a quiet night. It was raining.
From across the bar, Dr. Ronald Dante spotted a woman sipping a vodka. If you were to see this woman in any context, you would squint your eyes and think, she looks like somebody. Like a somebody. Regal, almost. Her whole life and career was built upon her looking like a somebody.
She was discovered as a teenager sipping a Coke in a corner store when a man asked her straight up, would you like to be in the movies? So they put her in a minor role in a film as a teenager. And when she was on screen wearing a tight sweater, the men in theaters were rendered into cartoon wolves, eyes popping, slapping the table, howling at the piece of meat before them.
For the rest of her life, she was known as the Sweater Girl. So they gave her bigger roles in bigger movies. And by the end of the 1940s, she was one of the biggest stars in the world, the woman who would be Marilyn Monroe before Marilyn Monroe. This was Lana Turner.
And on this rainy night at this disco, like so many men before him, Dante noticed her when his manager turns to him and asks, You know who that is?
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Chapter 2: What unique skills did Ronald Dante possess?
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In 1969, Lana was several years removed from her last hit movie when she decided to make the risky pivot from the big screen to the small screen. For people like her, there was a stigma to working in TV at the time. But this show? This show seemed like a home run. It was called The Survivors.
It had a stacked cast, the biggest budget in TV history, and was helmed by one of the most successful authors of all time, Harold Robbins. It was genuine prestige television.
Harold Robbins, The Survivors. It was a precursor to Dallas. People who have it all and want more.
And in every episode, there was Lana Turner.
He'll always hate you. You learn to live with that, because it's going to be a fact of your life. It's going to turn you into a bitter, frustrated old man. Get out!
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