I'm rereading The Last Don. What do you think of the two novels' treatments of Hollywood?

I always thought the GF novel's Hollywood chapters were moralistically lurid. It seemed like Puzo deliberately portrayed the leading men as closeted gays and the leading women as boozy sluts, so readers would get a false sense of superiority. Maybe that's what Puzo meant when he said he wrote GF "below my gifts."

I wonder if Puzo used The Last Don to vent his frustrations with Hollywood. Kind of how Blake Edwards used his bitter comedy "SOB" to vent about his experiences directing "Star!" and "Darling Lili."