Rudolph Valentino

I just think how their storyline is based, like, Dominik is just the, like I said, is this, like, side character where he should be the main character in Judgment Day.

He should be the perpetuator, perpetuator of chaos in Judgment Day by what he does, his decisions he makes, his, his selfish-minded stuff, and, like, his, like, um, uh, Rudolph Valentino lifestyle.

There's a real dated reference for you.

Um, so, like, and Liv needs further animosity towards someone like Roxanne because Roxanne's a young up-and-comer, and Liv is, like, this, the, she wants to be the main star of Judgment Day.

I want a babyface Roxanne that's like on, like just fueling her oats, as lack of a better phrase.

Outdated references and phrases I'm gonna make.

Rudolph Valentino, fueling your oats.

Yeah.

In the 1920s, there was a big fan wank.

Because basically a zine, they didn't call it a zine back then, but basically a zine was like, what if Rudolph Valentino is gay? Because so many women are in love with him.

And that makes me think he looks gay.

And he flipped out about it because it was like 1920.

Yeah.

Well, and it's also like the New York Times ran an article about like the emasculation of of actors or something like Rudolph Valentino was emasculating other men because women are in love with it.

Yeah.

And it became this thing of like, are you a fake Valentino fan or are you a real Valentino fan who hates all his other fans? Like, are you one of the good ones? And I feel like that is also at the core of this fan wank.

He became a serious breeder of championship Arabian horses.

He opened a California ranch and hung out with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, and Valentino.

Will eventually gave away almost his entire fortune.

He built the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Everybody's buried there, basically.

Judy Garland's buried there, Rudolph Valentino, DW Griffith, Burt Reynolds, David Lynch.

Like, the list goes on and on from the silent era to the present day.

This is a cemetery, but you said it's more of a public park.

Yeah.

Do you think the ghosts of Hollywood are sort of the memory keepers of these places?

I think that if you look at ghosts like Marilyn, and there's lots of Elvises, there's so many Rudolph Valentino ghosts, it's a way for us to keep their memory alive, especially when people have died too soon.

And I'm always shocked that there haven't been Princess Diana sightings yet.

This was similarly a huge, huge blockbuster.

Like there was a movie made out of it with Rudolph Valentino.

This book is foundational for what the romance novel will eventually become.

It deeply influences what happens in the 1920s and 1930s in romance.