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An unlikely pair races to find a murderer in the hazy underbelly of Los Angeles
Vivien Cokes and her husband, Jasper, are LA royalty, and they have the lifestyle to prove it. Big parties, a huge mansion in Malibu, and complicated affairs are all part of the package. However, during a morning swim, Vivien makes a discovery that changes her life forever. Smelling smoke, she sees her home in flames, and inside, she finds her husband dead...
Vivien Cokes and her husband, Jasper, are LA royalty, and they have the lifestyle to prove it. Big parties, a huge mansion in Malibu, and complicated affairs are all part of the package. However, during a morning swim, Vivien makes a discovery that changes her life forever. Smelling smoke, she sees her home in flames, and inside, she finds her husband dead...
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Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious,...
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"Covers all the basic food groups that nourish Hollywood: sex, power, dreams, and deception. What a great read." -Steve Kmetko on 'In and Out in Hollywood'
It used to be trendy; now it's just comfortable. And it's the perfect spot to recover from Saturday night while preparing for Monday morning. Each Sunday, Third and Heaven, a little diner in West Hollywood, California, plays host to four friends who over breakfast counsel, console, encourage,...
10) Hard-core murder
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"Spiros - 23 and looking younger, ex-hustler, gay and glad of it - and now starting his career as a private eye. Ursula - sexy transvestite from Sweden. Big Billy Paris - 500 pound Athenian producer of films legitimate and otherwise. Vangelis - Billy's kept boy, as quick on his bike as he is with a knife.
"A brutal murder is committed on the slopes of the Acropolis and Spiros is hired to find the killer.
"Australian writer Bob Henderson writes a...
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Young, ambitious and gay, Adam Zeller arrives from New York to become a star but soon finds himself lost in an underworld of gay porn and male prostitutes, dealing with down-and-out directors, washed up starlets, crystal meth addicts and the pretty boy Hollywood A list. This book takes a funny look at what an actor does to survive in Hollywood.