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Hi All

Thanks for inviting me to write for PFC, really looking forward to this. I recently wrote a review of Jerry Pinto’s biography of Helen “Helen: The life and times of an H-Bomb”, and wanted to share it here

A Review of Helen: Life and Times of an H-Bomb by Jerry Pinto

The detective in film noir is typically an outsider whose moral indifference to a crime or a crisis allows him an entry into the subterranean worlds of seemingly happy families. Like many of the films that Helen acted in, Jerry Pinto’s biography has a noirish feel to it. Beginning with his own elusive and unsuccessful attempts to speaking to Helen, Pinto is forced to play the role of the detective investigating the death of a phenomenon called Helen. While Helen may have been resurrected in her new respectable avatar as the dancing grandmother in Khamoshi or as the mother …