Cover Girl Confidential [Paperback]

Beverly Bartlett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 13, 2007

She's the host of a wildly popular, top-rated morning show. Bride of a high-society golden boy. A veritable household name. An immigrant rags-to-riches story that's the American dream personified-and so perfect for Hollywood. Men want her. Women wish they could be her. But now Addison is in jail awaiting deportation and her celebrity rating is falling faster than a discount boob job. Maybe the First Lady's personal vendetta is to blame. (Addison insists that the president was pulling her onto his lap when that photo was taken.) Or perhaps everything started to go downhill when she threw exercise equipment at her husband on live TV. (Addison says the jerk had it coming.)

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From Publishers Weekly

From the author of Princess Izzyand theE Street Shuffle comes the rise and fall and rise of Addison McGhee, a Turkish-born immigrant turned American media darling. After a smalltown Nebraska upbringing, Addison ditches the heartland for L.A. and lucks into a small role on ER, but her fame is brief and she's soon a Hollywood square—as in the television show. Luckily, she is spotted by a hotshot producer who decides she is the "coolest thing on earth" and hires her to co-host a morning show alongside the "dapper and dashing" Hughes Sinclair. The show becomes a hit and the two get hitched in Vegas. But what bumps her from famous to infamous is a photo snapped at a White House barbecue that captures drunken President Samson Briarwood kissing her. (She, for the record, thinks the pres is a pig.) A national scandal erupts, and when Addison's marriage is mistakenly annulled, an enraged and devious first lady creates citizenship trouble for Addison. Bartlett is witty and irreverent, with a keen sense of what makes American pop culture simultaneously attractive and ridiculous. (Mar.)
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About the Author

Beverly Bartlett is the author of Princess Izzy and the E Street Shuffle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: 5 Spot (March 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446695580
• ISBN-13: 978-0446695589
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,653,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stylish and witty book, April 6, 2007

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K. Yocom (Louisville, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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I really liked this author's first book, but this one is even better. It's fast, it's funny, it's clever, and it has a twist at the end that I absolutely did not see coming.

There's not an author out there who does a better job than Bartlett of using elements of the real world to make her fictional world seem both more true-to-life and more outrageous. She has a wonderful sense of satire and a unique way of affectionately tweaking America's obsession with pop culture. In this book, she's found the perfect way to balance celebrity fun/fluff with other aspects of 21st-century America, namely immigration issues, [...] marriage, and a few others besides. And yet she does it with an incredibly light touch. It's a real treat to read a book so funny and entertaining, and yet written with such brains and heart.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining!, March 20, 2007

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Alicia (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

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I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I laughed out loud in places and liked the way the author mixed real celebrities into the plot. (Hey, any book that starts with someone kissing George Clooney has to be good!)

But I also liked that the book touches on real social issues, immigration, gay marriage, celebrity watching. (All the important stuff.)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and fast, June 19, 2007

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J. Jamison (New Albany, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a fun book, and can be read fast. I happened to have two free days, and the book helped fill the time. The character of Addison is very likeable, if a bit naive, considering the people she has worked with, but that adds to her charm. Parts of it are funny, some parts you have to suspend reality-- being fired in the middle of your own TV show when you are the hottest thing going is not going to happen. Also, the author made mention that the Kentucky Derby only draws stars from below the A-list. This was a surprise, since the Barnstable-Brown party always gets the good ones, all A-listers. The author is from my hometown, Louisville, so apparently, this was said tongue-in-cheek and she knew better. But that's OK. It's still a good read.