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Title: You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips ISBN: 0-451-20533-2 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (29 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Lunch in the Fast Lane
Comment: I recently picked up "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" at my local Store ...after all, I like a change from the fantasy of novel reading, to the fantasy of stars and their satelites. If it's cheap enough. I enjoy the irony of the tales of wealth and excesses of people who have (& abuse) so much, while we mere mortals are stressing over the next rent payment, thankful we aren't among the homeless and hungry.
I expected standard Hollywood dirt-dishing. I was unprepared for the vengeful & venomous whining from a woman who'd once set a new standard for women in 'the industry', yet never saw she'd helped create the viper's nest she later exposed in over 600 paqes of difficult to read complaining.
Yet I read it all. I thought the bitter and mean-spirited texture of the book, with it's raw self-revelation/loathing theme, would have some gentler conclusion, message, or lesson learned by the author. It didn't. As tough as Julia Phillips was, she never beat her addiction...to Hollywood.
Julia lost sight of the fact that though she was singular in a particular era of film making, she was not unique in the battle with the temptations of self-medication, or the quest for happiness we all make. This "but I'm so special as a woman" sexist vein is the glue that held this book together, and would have been acceptable to the reader if we could feel at the end that Julia ever really "got it". I found the book drew me into the nastiness, though it seemed obvious the fine details of every deal or friendship were written for insiders. Name- dropping as the weapon of choice.
We all love the movies; have our favorite actors and directors; we like to believe there really is some impossible magic, and that true artistry will win out and be noticed in a flood of wannabes. Julia tells us that's not the case. One must admire the uncompromising dog-fight honesty of her book, if not the mercenary sour grapes.
Last night, watching the 2002 Oscars, I learned that Julia had died. And I saw Robert Redford's moving speech, with his plea for freedom of expression. I hope that is possible; Julia's book makes me fear it's not. Is Sundance still as unsullied as at its original conception?
Julia would not have missed the irony of me finding her book in the [local] store, in barely read condition.
Rating: 5
Summary: a great beach read
Comment: After reading all of the reviews to date, I must say that I read this book shortly after it came out and found it informative and amusing. Hollywood is a strange place. I am sure that Julia Phillips took some "literary liscense" in her telling of the tale, but no one could write a book as comprehensive as hers without some sort of feeling or meaning. It is worth a read, especially for anyone enamored with the L.A. film life!
Rating: 3
Summary: oooo not a new yorker, who cares
Comment: The book was okay for what it was. Not an original idea, personally I would read the sample pages closely to see if her writing style is what you would like read. She definitely is not beating a dead horse like some writers. I will say there is no prize either....
I think it is interesting to read reviews from other people here who happen to be authorities on New York, when they live 1 hour away In New Jersey. What, can't afford Far Hills?
This is a great place to come and air grievances, but please the East Coast/West Coast discrimination is very middle aged. Who really cares about the differences? No one I know. Except people who are athorities on what others are thinking.
Have a great day! :-) Keep smiling!!
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Title: The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans ISBN: 1893224686 Publisher: New Millenium Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hello, He Lied by Linda Obst ISBN: 0767900413 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind ISBN: 0684857081 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Shoot Out: Surviving Fame and Misfortune in Hollywood by Peter Guber, Peter Bart ISBN: 0399148086 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 09 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line by Art Linson ISBN: 1582342407 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 02 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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