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The A-List Playbook: How to Survive Any Crisis While Remaining Wealthy, Famous, and Most Importantly, Skinny [Paperback]

Leslie Gornstein (Author)
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Book Description

February 22, 2009

Colbert is to politics as the Answer Bitch is to celebrity life— both deliciously irresistible.

If Hollywood is a sport, you want Leslie Gornstein on your team and this playbook in your ridiculously-oversized leather purse. The A-List Playbook is the perfect introduction for newcomers to the exciting alternate reality of the celebrity lifestyle. A must-read for anyone who cares why so many celebs are sporting "bumps," or whether they are really "just like us," this guide—nay, rulebook—lays down the law on what you need to know to play Hollywood in a simple and concise manner. (And if you don't care? You care. It's a celebrity culture; if you can't embrace it, mock it!)

The voice is intelligently hilarious, and everyone's favorite Answer Bitch has been around the boulevard once or twice. (How else would she have scored a column on E! and a radio show on Sirius?) For the first time on the written page, she reveals the secrets to celebrity life. Here's everything you need to know to hire and fire assistants, develop a loyal entourage, get free makeup, and keep those inaccurate cellulite-inclusive photographs out of the press. With timeless anecdotes, razor sharp quotes, and illustrative charts, The A-List Playbook is the smart girl's response to People.

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About the Author

Leslie Gornstein, aka The Answer Bitch, is a Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader and many other magazines, weeklies, and zines. Her question-and-answer column appears on E! Online. She also appears on a weekly podcast and satellite radio show. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; Original edition (February 22, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1602392854
  • ISBN-13: 978-1602392854
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #863,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Yet Highly Informative, February 3, 2009
This review is from: The A-List Playbook: How to Survive Any Crisis While Remaining Wealthy, Famous, and Most Importantly, Skinny (Paperback)
Ms. Gornstein has delivered a deft high-wire act of a book: The A-List Playbook is often laugh-out-loud funny, but it never strays far from the realm of hard-nosed reporting. That's what sets it apart from the usual jokey fare of the the mock survival genre. Ostensibly a guide for A-List celebs who want to hang on to their precarious royal-lite status, the book is actually an expose of how today's pampered stars get away with practically anything they desire (even, sometimes, homicide), thanks to the eager enablement of their sycophantic handlers and a star-struck public. The author backs up the revelations (how many nannies in the average A-lister's child-care platoon, how much free stuff a movie diva racks up, who kisses up hardest in a celebrity entourage) with well-researched facts. The perfect antidote to the breathy fawning of the glossy checkout aisle mags.
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5.0 out of 5 stars gornstein is too funny for her pants, March 2, 2009
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I absolutely love this book. I bought it because I'm a secret reader of People magazine and Gornstein totally makes fun of these mags while satisfying our need to know what celebrities are doing...This book is smart and hilarious and the illustrations throughout are total eye candy!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Carry with Pride, February 28, 2009
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I am a closet reader of entertainment magazines. They are a guilty pleasure I enjoy behind closed doors. But the A-List Playbook is the best kind of entertainment reading. Ms. Gornstein's writing is smart and sharp. The facts are well researched. And the content is fascinating to anyone who has watched a TV show or a movie in the last decade. I laugh out loud and when people stare I show them the book with pride. Any one who has felt the need to sneak a look at those grocery store tabloids will love this book. Any intelligent person who has any curiosity about our current state of pop culture will delight in Ms. Gornstein's expose on celebrity in America. Buy it! Read it! Give it as gifts!
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