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If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody's Ever Heard of Me?

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Then you really need to read Jewel Shepard's new book! Jewel Shepard is one of Hollywood's "B-Girls." For those of you who don't know what a B-Girl is, these are the women whose job it is to get partially or fully unclothed as soon after the start of the film as possible. These are also the women whose dream it is to rise to the "A" level in the film industry. This is the level where you'll find actresses such as Julia Roberts, Michele Pfeiffer, etc., etc.

Jewel's book details her ongoing fight to find a decent agent, to get a decent part, in a decent film working with a decent director...without having to get naked for someone to do it. Throughout it all, you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the trials she is forced to endure. Horrors such as movie producers, rainy night shoots, producers, pig excrement, producers, zombies, producers and more producers.

Seriously, I really enjoyed the book, not only because I know the author somewhat, nor for the pictures her publishers "asked" her to include, but for the "stick-to-it" never gonna give up attitude she has. When other people would have sold their stuff and moved back to Milwaukee, Jewel shrugs off the blows and keeps on swinging.

Jewel has a wonderful flow-of-consciousness style of writing, giving the impression she just sat down and started typing. The book lets you in behind the curtains for a "No BS" look at one actress's ongoing quest in Hollywood. It is very entertaining and I found myself unable to put it down. Of course, the fact that she's a gorgeous brunette with a great sense of humor doesn't hurt!

Have you ever wondered what those women posing nude and semi-nude were thinking? Maybe not, but now you can actually find out. Jewel Shepard, trading on a gorgeous body and what can only be called over-the-top spunk, comes up the hard way through the sleaze and grime to actually accomplish just about everyone's wish, to be in the movies. "Gone With the Wind" they're not, but bare breasts and lots of action sell pretty well out there, thank you, and Jewel has what it takes and holds her nose long enough to get it done.

The fact that she can write about her early experiences as a stripper with the accuracy only someone who has done it can gives the book an authenticity rarely achieved elsewhere. And with a sense of humor worthy of Job, she manages to impress you and humble you at the same time. Right on, Jewel! Even though we're just a sea of faces to you, we're with you all the way.

i've read this book a few times, and each time it gets better. jewel's amazing one-track mind (hollywood) and sense of humor keeps her sanity through situations that would crumble most of us. it also reveals a lot of ugly truths about hollywood, making me wonder how anyone becomes a star. strangely, i really enjoyed her time spent hiding from the world in montana. this book will make you wish you'd been fortunate enough to know jewel. of course---now we do.

Jewel is a better writer, better observer of the human condition then her life path and career would have suggested. Nice writing style, reads like you are sittng together talking. It isnt a book about how geart she is, or who done her wrong, but a rare self assesment of a life which took a much different path then the path taken by most of the people who will read the book. I have read a few other books by "B" movie ladies and this is the most honest and most well balanced presentation. Also, great pictures.