Hollywood's Made-to-Order Punks, by Richard Roat

The Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the w BZ Book Club.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Jordan rich Fans of old time Hollywood, you'll certainly
get a kick out of this one. It's called Hollywood's
Made to Order Punks, The dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys,
east Side Kids, and the Bowery Boys. The author is
Richard wrote as a kid growing up in the sixties
and watching reruns of some of these films on TV,
wrote became a huge fan and developed a connection and
friendship with many of the stars who still survived. He

(00:24):
got to know Gabe Dell, Hants Hall, Billy Benedict, Stanley Clements,
Johnny Duncan, David Gorsey, Bill Lawrence, and Key Luke, to
name a few. The book features countless stories of the
making of these movies in the background of the actors,
many of whom were born and raised on the tough
streets of New York, hence the appropriate title for this
movie lover's book, Hollywood's Made to Order Punks, A pictorial

(00:47):
history of the dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, east
Side Kids, and.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
The Bowery Boys. The author, Richard wrote, roat and that's
the book Club.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
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