The inside story of Hollywood- money and corruption, drink and drugs, fame and terrible secrets
Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland sang 'Over the Rainbow'; later she had an affair with William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was Elia Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and to Warhol's muse - Edie Sedgewick - about whom Lou Reed wrote 'Femme Fatale' and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982). That book became an international best-seller, of which Norman Mailer wrote- 'This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.'
One of the best books ever written about the movies.
*Daily Telegraph, Book of the Year #1*
Selective and sly, personal and political – and by far one of the
best books ever written about Hollywood… The stories are vivid and
the voices as clear as if the speakers were still alive… Like
reading a secret diary and looking at a geologist’s diagram at the
same time: with each intimate revelation, the precise
stratification of the world’s most glamorous and closed society
becomes clear.
*Daily Telegraph*
The best book ever done on the terrifying social dysfunction of the
beautiful people… [Stein] is clear-eyed and knows where the bodies
are buried… Though all “true”, this book reads like a dream… A
spellbinding record of that ancien régime.
*New Statesman*
The dark side of Tinseltown – the fame, the fortunes, the secrets –
told by those in the know… Stein edits together the dizzying array
of interviews she has collected, weaving them into a subtly
revealing oral history that illuminates Hollywood life from the
1920s to the 1990s.
*Sunday Times*
A gripping story of money, power and fame… Highly entertaining
stuff packed with memorable anecdotes.
*Tatler*
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