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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. -- Gaby Wood * 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 regime. -- David Thomson * 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. -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times * A gripping story of money, power and fame... Highly entertaining stuff packed with memorable anecdotes. -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
Charlie Chaplin vs. America
When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided...
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