All That Glitters

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480442290

<DIV><DIV><b>In Hollywood, a cynical writer recalls five faded beauties of the silver screen</b></div><DIV><BR>Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars&mdash;some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show&mdash;are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her coffin, Caine remembers Babe as she was: a dynamite beauty with secrets that could have burned Hollywood to the ground.</div><DIV><BR>In <i>Babe</i> and four other interlocking novellas, Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood&rsquo;s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. Charlie Caine knows where cinema&rsquo;s bodies are buried, and he&rsquo;s anxious to start digging. </div><DIV></div></div>