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Title: So 5 Minutes Ago : A Novel by HILARY DE VRIES ISBN: 1-4000-6138-5 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: So 5 Minutes Ago
Comment: This book is hilarious!! I am a personal publicist in the entertainment industry, and like it or not Hilary DeVries captures the character perfectly. Unlike a novel like "The Devil Wears Prada," where the protagonist does nothing but whine and complain about her job and what she feels are duties that are "beneath" her, DeVries is pretty accurate in her depiction of what the job of a Hollywood publicist entails. Nobody is going to argue that trying to get an actor to show up at a photo shoot on time is totally rediculous. However, the fact remains that just as it's a personal assistants job to attend to whatever their boss (in any business) might ask of them, it's a publicists job to make sure their clients are portrayed in the best possible way. This by the way is PR 101...in any industry. Bottom line...maybe Hollywood isn't as glamourous as people want to belive it is and the vast majority of young twenty-somethings that chase their dreams of stardom to California might want to stay home. If you do end up working in the biz, you too will find this book very funny. One last thing, for those who said this book wasn't well written...Hilary DeVries happens to be a very respected journalist for the New York Times...then again maybe not all of you actually read the newspaper.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny! Funny! Funny!
Comment: De Vries nails "the biz" and does it with a gift for satire that transcends itself. Alex Delaware is no paper-thin comic foil. She's Every-Girl tumbled down the Rabbit Hole trapped in an Alice-in-Wonderland parallel reality that would be impossible to believe, except IT'S ALL TRUE. Half of the fun lies in decoding the Roman a Clef aspects of the novel (De Vries is an entertainment industry journalist with major credentials). On second thought, make that one-tenth of the fun. The real fun lies in the rich characterizations, the fun-house plotting. I could not put this down. Reading it, I couldn't help but think -- this would make a totally cool TV series. ("Sex in the City" ends in a couple of weeks, and I'm already pining for its replacement.) What can I say? I loved this book and can't wait to get my hands on De Vries' next opus.
Rating: 5
Summary: So Right Now
Comment: As a closet celebrity addict who reads everything from Vanity Fair to In Touch, watches E! and Access Hollywood, and coughs up portions of her paycheck to see both 'Troy' AND 'Saved!', I'm pretty tough on subjects dealing w/the world of the rich and famous. As junkies like us know, most of it is absolute dreck--bad movies, worse TV shows, wretched tabloid stories, hideous stars--but we live for the few things that aren't; for the movie that turns out to be great, the magazine article that we enjoy so much we make xeroxes and pass it out to our friends, and for the book that happily pulls us into a different world for a few hours. "So Five Minutes Ago" is one of those books. Unlike most characters in a movie or book, the leading lady here, a young Hollywood publicist named Alex Davidson, is actually someone you WANT to want to spend time with, someone you wish would move in to the apartment next door. (Instead of that sulky misplaced suburbanite and his persnickety fiance who live there now. Oh, that's real life. Never mind.) Alex is smart, funny, cynical and makes you keep turning the pages. A highlight is guessing the identities of the real-life celebrities who 'inspired' some of the characters (like the hot, straight-outta-rehab actor, and the needy lesbian showbiz couple). And unlike, excuse me, crap like "Bergdorf Blondes" and "The Devil Wears Prada," this is actually written well, so read it if you're literate. AND: Internet gossip says "So Five Minutes Ago" is being turned into a TV series, ala "Sex & The City" and everyone from Amanda Peet (LOVE her!) to Christina Applegate (LOVE her, too!) is being mentioned to play Alex. So read it before HBO get their hands on it...
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Title: The Right Address by CARRIE KARASYOV, JILL KARGMAN ISBN: 0767917219 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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