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Leading Lady is a penetrating depiction of what it's like beneath the Hollywood glamor and glitz. As Kate Coscarelli has proven before in her bestselling novels, she knows the shadows and the secrets and the sordid lies of the famous and the very beautiful. A stunning return to the territory only she has explored with such authenticity and insight, Leading Lady is the best Coscarelli yet.
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• Mr. Sidney Gainsborough: quality pictures
• Saffercisco
• Brother
• Richard Wagner: public domain?
• Reunion over lightly
• The magical numbers
• Adventure on the set
• Fire!
• Everything satisfactory
• Drawing room B
• Eileen
• The industry and the professor
• In a grove
• The Glendale people
• Yucca Knolls
• The answer depends
• James Francis and the star
• Natica Jackson
• The way to Majorca
• The sun room
• Malibu from the sky
• Hello Hollywood good-bye.

On the sound stage and the casting couch, behind the facades of Spanish style mansions and inside studio trailers, at costumes and makeup, in posh nightclubs and in backrooms filled with cigar smoke, here are the ruthless producers, over-the-hill directors, disillusioned writers, glamorously callous actresses, desperate and hungry starlets, and matinee idols with dark secrets as they are unsparingly observed by one of America's most popular masters of realism. Best known for the now-classic 1934 novel Appointment in Samarra and such blockbuster bestsellers as Ten North Frederick and Butterfield 8, in a career spanning four decades John O'Hara also published numerous story collections. Among his finest work, they highlight qualities that sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the course of his career: the snappy dialogue, the telling detail, the ironic narrative twist. Like the novels, and like the much-praised collection of John O'Hara's Gibbsville stories, also edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the selections in John O'Hara's Hollywood, many originally appearing in the New Yorker or the Saturday Evening Post, explore the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters for whom arrangements consitute a deal and compromises pass for love.
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Joanna advertises that she will do anything for $10,000. Ernest Mayday is in need of a story - if he can get her to tell him what she has been asked to do perhaps he can write a story and make a profit. But will Joanna tell him the truth? By the co-author of "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister".
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The world turns upside down and everything goes a little crazy in this tale by the author of Tender about a hot, restless summer and an unforgettable woman who looks for salvation in Hollywood. "Hilarious and scary!"--Fannie Flagg.
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When her marriage to a Hollywood mega-star is over, actress Lizzie Pepper, America's Girl Next Door, decides to tell her side of the story and, in doing so, realizes that her romance wasn't what she and everyone else thought.

This is one of the original books on life in Hollywood in the early days of moviemaking in the Twenties. It set the style for many movies to follow and was made and remade several times. Lawrence Clark Powell listed it as one of the thirty California classics.
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Hoping to escape her past when she escapes her religiously conservative family and moves to Hollywood, Birdie all but despairs of an acting career nine years later and meets a naive young actor whose self-destructive impulses parallel her own.

For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep your cool, your sanity, or your life when things heat up.The robbery of a Hollywood jewelry store, complete with masks and a hand grenade, quickly connects to a Russian nightclub, an undercover operation gone bloodily wrong, and a cluelessly ambitious pair of tweakers. Putting the pieces together are the sergeant they call the Oracle and his squad of street cops. There's Budgie Polk, a twenty-something firecracker with a four-month-old at home, and Wesley Drubb, a rich boy who joined the force seeking thrills. Fausto Gamboa is the tetchy veteran, and Hollywood Nate is the one who never shuts up about movies. They spend their days in patrol cars and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps. From their headquarters at Hollywood Station, they see the glamour city for what it is: a field of land mines, where the mundane is dangerous and the dangerous is mundane.
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Sharlene Miller is a small-town girl dreaming of Hollywood glamour. In her relentless quest for success she transforms herself into the cultural icon Sierra. But fame always has its price. Struggling with demons both real and imagined, Sierra finds herself moving through coma-induced hallucinations, fairy tale porn films, down the rabbit hole of addiction, and finally through the looking glass of Hollywood itself.
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