Show Business Kills
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In this pulse-pounding read, a hard-driving movie executive, a beloved soap opera diva, a screenwriter nominated for an Oscar, and a well-known actress married to TV's King of Late Night face the fight of their lives when a stalker tests their lifelong friendship.
Four friends, who have led a charmed in Hollywood, are facing middle age. They have always shared a "Girl's Night Out" but suddenly, it becomes a painful vigil as three of the four watch their friend fight for her life in an intensive care unit. She has been attacked by a stalker who is obsessed with all four women.
Will the bonds of friendship that have linked them together for years enable them to survive this chilling night?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The author of Beaches has recycled her bestselling blend of show business and devoted friends tested by tragedy into an involving story of contemporary Hollywood. Best friends since their college days 30 years past, soap opera seductress Jan O'Malley, former sitcom star Marly Bennett, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Rose Morris and studio executive Ellen Bass must face facts: they've now reached the age where their ``drug of choice has become estrogen.'' Confronted with her TV character's possible extinction, Jan is renegotiating her contract with barracuda-like producers, while Marly is auditioning for antacid commercials. Rose's agent wants to find her a ``young'' writing partner, and Ellen is fighting a losing war with a pack of sexually harassing studio honchos. When Jan is shot by a mysterious intruder, the other three investigate old lovers, old friends and old secrets until they discover her attacker's identity. Dart's snappily paced tale is spiced with spot-on doses of black humor, while her insights into female friendships, as always, ring reassuringly true. Even a cliched and familiar conclusion should do nothing to hinder fans' enjoyment. Film rights to Bette Midler's All Girl Productions; author tour.
