From the author of Madame Cleo's Girls comes a funny, fast-moving romp through New York's gossip column industry. hen Lois Pines, New York's reigning gossip columnist, is fatally silenced, a glorious melange of players are waiting to parade through the minefields of scandal. Publishers Weekly hails this scintillating expose as "thoroughly engaging".
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From Publishers Weekly
Goldberg's second foray (after Madame Cleo's Girls) into the private lives of the rich, famous and unscrupulous is a sexy, witty and thoroughly engaging romp. When Lolly Pines, the doyenne of gossip columnists, meets an accidental death while moving a marzipan bust of Kim Basinger, her assistant, Kick (for Katherine) Butler, inherits not only Lolly's cavernous apartment but also entree into the lives of her "friends." Meanwhile, fledgling gossip reporter Baby Bayer, determined to take over Lolly's column for the New York Courier, is trading sex for influence with shifty celebrity lawyer Irving Fourbraz even as the editor-in-chief of the Courier, who used to sleep with Babe, is falling in love with Kick. For her part, Kick has a score to settle with Irving, who once got her unjustly fired. And just about everyone is mixed up in the hunt for Maria Lopez, the starlet/hooker who was pushed off a hotel balcony by the subject of Lolly's last interview, a TV heartthrob. If Baby finds the starlet, she has Lolly's job; if Kick finds her, she gets her revenge on Irving. With a plot as dizzying as the shenanigans of real-life celebs and gossip hounds, plus an outrageous cast of characters (some recycled from Madame Cleo's Girls), this savvy novel celebrates the glitterati as it skewers them-and is bound to win Goldberg a host of new fans.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
The tragicomic accidental death of omnipotent New York gossip columnist Lolly Pines sets in motion a cheerful scramble for control of her column, access to her sources, and knowledge of the secrets that made her so powerful. The first contender for Lolly's throne is her assistant, Kick Butler, still sweet-tempered despite a disillusioning romance with novelist Lionel Maltby (a user if ever there was one) and the repeated rejections by Fifteen Minutes editor Fedalia Null that landed Kick on Lolly's payroll. Her principal competition is Baby Bayer, a second-string gossiper for the tabloid New York Courier who's sleeping her way up from Courier editor Joe Stone to Lolly's lawyer, Irving Fourbraz. Baby, perhaps the only character in contemporary American fiction who can unzip a man's fly with her toes, doesn't care that her burning-sheets affair with Fourbraz is depriving his wife, Neeva, of affection, trust, and the getaway money her mother left her. As Kick, Baby, and Neeva, like early amphibians, struggle up through swamps of foul men to the freedom of a feminist shore, former food columnist Georgina Dyson, wife of the Courier's publisher, is in danger of suffocating on dry land from the uxorious ministrations of Tanner Dyson, who can't help milking the publicity machine to insure that her every attempt at independence is successful. While Kick and Baby merrily battle each other for men, power, and publicity--a TV star's defenestration of his female companion in the opening pages turns into an endlessly fertile source of headlines--there's room for a million subplots, naughty bits, and flashbacks showing you exactly how they all got to be that way, before everybody (yes, everybody) finally hunkers down to live happily ever after. Like Madame Cleo's Girls (1992), nonstop connivance without a mean bone in its body: a Mister Rogers production of Tosca. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting look at the world of gossip,
By "sixgunsara" (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: People Will Talk (Hardcover)
Not sure what book the other reviewer read but it wasn't this one! I found this book to be what it is, a good "trashy" novel to devour in a night or two. Interesting look at the inner world of gossip. Not the best book I have ever read but great lead character.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A piece of hard-core porn trash from Linda Tripp's agent,
By "goldensam" (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: People Will Talk (Paperback)
This book, which Kirkus review refers to as a funny romp through NY "high society" is a) not funny b) has nothing to do with society, high or low, abd c) is pure hard-core porn It is allegedly a book about how women get ahead in the world of publishing, but it is acutally a piece of badly written hard core pornography with page after page of graphic (but not very sexy) sex described in pure Anglo-Saxon. There is even a character -- a whore -- with the nom-de-lit of Monica Champagne (book was published originally in 1994!) Feminists will not be amused: the way that women get ahead, or catch men, or do anything, is by either being totally obedient and subservient, or by luring them (if that's the word) into bed where anything goes, and the real trick is to fake an orgasm. The characters in this book make Monica L. look like a rank amateur in the stalking department, but it is interesting to see Ms. Goldberg's mind at work, then to recall her statements and advice to Ms. Tripp. In addition to the rest, the writing is sophomoric and trite and the plot makes the average soap opera look like "War and Peace." Pure garbage.
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