doesn't work | Celebutantes | Amanda Goldberg, Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper

Hoping for a sequal | Celebutantes | Amanda Goldberg, Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper

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	• Celebutantes Amanda Goldberg, Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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she's no Hilton sister....

Lola comes from a very famous family, her father a hot-shot director, her brother a sought after music producer. She, however, at twenty-five is still trying to find her niche, something that will make her famous in her own right, not just a daughter of.

She has tried many careers, after graduating from high school she went to art school for a year and created some interesting pieces, but she just couldn't stay committed to it. She also tried fashion design, but was not able to come up with anything superb enough to warrant a full fledged career. Part of the trouble is partly because she has an addiction, one that not many know about, but to her can be just as devastating as any illegal substance. Lola is an Actorholic. This means that every boyfriend she has had to the present has been an actor, all of which having broken her heart into a trillion pieces, but she just can't get enough!

He longest and most devastating was with SMITH (read it and you will figure out why there is a need for caps) a veritable nobody whom, (thanks to the leading lady having to go to rehab) she did a movie with and consequently fell for. Everything with them was great until the reviews came out and brutally ripped apart Lola's performance, after which he breaks up with her because who in there right mind would want to be seen as such a failure? What a loser he is.

After some pretty literal soul searching she decides to make one last valiant effort in the working world by becoming a PR person for her BAF (best gay forever) Julian and try and get a few high ranking celebs to wear some dresses he has designed to get his name out there come Oscar night. Coming from a famous family, however, does not guarantee success, as she runs into one problem after another. Never has Hollywood seemed like such a zoo!

I enjoyed this book, Lola is funny and accident prone and you can't help but root for her throughout the book. This title is a definite pick up, though panned by some other reviewers it has potential and is the perfect partner for your towel in that beach bag!

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doesn't work

even as a throwaway type of beach read, this book doesn't quite work. it has aspirations that are way too high for the talent of the writers and rather than playing off of their strengths (their intimate knowledge of the high society entertainment world and the type of people who inhabit it), they try to make too many social critiques of their peers. the result is a book that is uneven and unsure, with characters who are not quite relatable on any level (either as a guilty pleasure train wreck or a person with whom you can actually imagine inhabiting your world).

there are parts of it that offer some voyeuristic fun but on the whole this novel does not deliver. i put it as much on the editor as the writers though. that person should have worked this into a more clear sighted story.

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Hoping for a sequal

This book is so catchy. It makes you want to sneak to the bathroom at work to see what's going to happen next. It's a very light read and can definately capture all of your attention. I would recommend this book to anyone who would love to just get consumed by a novel, but not feel like they fried their brain along the way.

Prepare to enter a world of what fashion designer Michael Kors has called ?stylish intrigue, glamorous machinations, and such juicy fun.? Take a wild ride with Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, who have culled their insider?s purview to peel back Oscar?s legendary curtain and reveal what really goes on under the sheets of Young Hollywood. Do Happy Hollywood Endings really exist, or does everyone end up on the cutting room floor sooner or later? It?s a shocking, entertaining race to the end of the red carpet?

Twenty-six-year-old Lola Santisi, daughter of an Academy Award-winning mega-director and a former cover model, is Hollywood Royalty without a kingdom?or even a condo?to call her own. This ?Actorholic,? who also suffers from ?Career Deficit Disorder,? is looking for more from life than what her famous last name has offered, namely her mother?s last-season Chanel hand-me-downs and the lurking shadow of her father?s fame. In her latest gig as a Hollywood ambassador, Lola?s stepping out of her Louboutins and into fashion?s ultimate combat boots to engage in LA's cruelest blood sport: convincing celebrities to wear an unknown designer's gowns to the Oscars.

Providing advice, emotional support, and even a new mantra or two are her BFF (Best Friend Forever) Kate Woods, an obsessively ambitious talent agent desperate to go from unter to über, and her BAF (Best Actress Forever) Cricket Curtis, a struggling up-and-comer trying to surpass her role as a coma victim on Grey?s Anatomy and overcome one rejection after another to become the next Cameron Diaz or Nicole Kidman, or the next anybody. Together, they dodge fashion roadkill while navigating General Motors? Annual Fashion Show, the Gagosian dinner at Mr. Chow, and more. Ultimately, the week culminates at the über-exclusive Vanity Fair Oscar party, where the allotted time slot on your invitation marks how far in or out you really are. But who will be left standing with job, heart, and stilettos still intact at the after-after-Oscar party?

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