I wouldn't say Moss is that bad, Western Guy!
She seems to be an honest writer, one who does research, but she just seems lackluster about Walsh (I have since listened to an interview with her in which she says she's a big fan... very odd, because in the book she does not really show it). She basically makes character judgments about Walsh and those he worked with, which does bother me, reading into them traits and thoughts they may or may not have had. In the interview, she said she wanted to find out what in Walsh's autobiography was true and what was not true, but she didn't want to base her book on the autobiography or make it a pure rebuttal of the autobiography. I understand that, but that's basically what her book is, a film by film rebuttal. The book ends up being more about her and what she's interested in, than about Walsh.
Her judgments of Flynn and Raft seem dead wrong to me (like her judgments of some of the films), since Walsh was always the fellow who got along with everyone, except maybe Miriam Cooper.
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It is also possible that in the studio communications, Walsh would tend to flatter the studio bosses, and that while working with the actors he would side with them. He was a go-between, and so basing a book solely on studio memos may not reveal an accurate picture of what was going on, or of Walsh's real opinion of someone. I don't know if he actually said, "I don't want to work with Raft", I highly doubt it. She concludes that Raft became too difficult and that he didn't want him for High Sierra, but again, there is no PROOF, she may have seen it in writing, but it ain't put that way in her book. She simply concludes it.
It seems to me that Raft and Walsh should have worked well together, both tough guys with a sweet center. Raft was certainly no more trouble than Flynn on the set. Walsh certainly wouldn't have let a few dust-ups deter him if he liked a man.
Apparently, she is making a documentary about Walsh.