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My Last Movie Star: A Novel of Hollywood

My Last Movie Star: A Novel of Hollywood

Allegra Coleman is young, beautiful, and destined for stardom. Clementine James is a jaded journalist who has been persuaded to write one last celebrity profile, a piece on Allegra for Flame magazine. But when their road-trip interview ends in a car crash, Allegra vanishes into thin air, and America goes into a frenzy of round-the-clock TV coverage, candlelight vigils, and miraculous sightings.

Clementine becomes a celebrity by proxyâ€”and while recovering from her injuries, she receives a series of ghostly visits from Natalie Wood, Clara Bow, Myrna Loy, Loretta Young, Gloria Swanson, and other screen sirens of the past. As Tallulah Bankhead tells her, â€œItâ€™s agony, darling...bitter agonyâ€”watching everything slip away. Your looks. Your dough. Your mind. Your ass.â€ Has the missing Allegra escaped such a fate?

To find out, Martha Sherrill takes Clementine on a riotous, often hilarious journey inside the hideaways of Hollywood stars and the hangouts of Manhattanâ€™s power editors. Along the way, Sherrill captures the erotic jolt of celebrity and the way it affects the celebrated. My Last Movie Star is both a parody and parable of Hollywood, at once absurdly funny and weirdly plausible.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2003-02-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375507694

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