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Title: Secret Celebrity by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1-57322-991-1 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Fun!
Comment: This turned out to be a great read. The characters were all well written and the plot was unique. I will definitely try her other book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Rare combination- quick read and good literature
Comment: I enjoyed reading this novel. THe story is generic- woman trying to make her mark in Hollywood before she gets too old, but it's the way that the story is told that makes it interesting. Christine is 35, about to get divorced, and in search of "it". Her new goal is to produce a documentary about Richard Gault, a "secret celebrity"- he was on the verge on huge success in the 70's, and then he dropped out.
As the story unfolds we meet her cast of characters- they are all artfully drawn characters. Wolper presents us with enough information to make them alive, without going into overload and boring the reader with the minute details of their lives.
The pace of the book is brisk- the lines funny, the character traits are very funny. It is exactly how I want to view a book about Hollywood- light, humorous, a little social commentary.
My only problem with the book is the amount of pop culture references that are thrown in- I realize that any book about Hollywood must include these, but they unfortunetly date a book- the book is out before it's even been published. Two years from now the novel will loose much of its potency, and that's a shame because it is a fun book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Woman from Mars seeks Secret Celebrity
Comment: In 1999, Christine Chase is living up to her last name --- she is chasing 1970s songwriter/actor Richard Gault, who has dropped from the limelight decades ago. She decides to do a documentary on this man she has never actually met, nor seen a photo of him more recent than 1989. But Christine suspects that she is in a premillenial lull, and filming a documentary on finding Gault will shake her out of it. Her marriage has ended, her career is at a standstill, and her best friend and object of desire is William, who runs the newsstand where she buys her weekly fix of ...celebrity magazines.
Christine teams up with William and Jennifer, another newsstand regular whom William is in lust with (Jennifer is a 22-year-old It girl, Christine is a 35-year-old transplant from South Boston who has spent 10 years in LA behind the camera.) They start looking for leads to Gault any which way they can, more for lack of something to do. But it becomes an actual quest to Christine as Gault reaches mythical proportions in her mind.
This is a great book, you feel like Christine is your cool smart friend as you go along on this crazy ride (indeed, her best friend in the book is the heroine of Wolper's first book, Elizabeth West, who is in the man's world of writing scripts for action movies.) Wolper captures the ephemeral quality of relationships and the fine dance we all play but especially when with celebrities (am I his girlfriend if he openly dates 5 other women and I see him in People magazine with another woman?) It has bite but also heart and will keep you enthralled.
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Title: The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1573228184 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Other Side of Mulholland by Stephen Randall ISBN: 0312288670 Publisher: L A Weekly Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood by Richard Rushfield ISBN: 031228053X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0452278686 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: It's All True: A Novel of Hollywood by David Freeman ISBN: 0743249755 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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