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Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore.
Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry
Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained
This review is from: Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes about the Stars and Legends of the Movies! (Hardcover)
Stephen Schochet may not be an instantly recognizable name to readers, but those who have the radio on in the car or in the home or office are bound to have heard his Hollywood Minutes, a syndicated part of national radio broadcasting. Schochet has been a tour guide for those (are they really real?) Hollywood tours for years and has gathered innumerable numbers of stories about every kind of star and film and production and behind the scenes imaginable. And now here they are in print as a handy little resource for surefire laughs and entertainment for any time of the day or evening.
Every page of this 300 page book has at least one of his stories: in keeping with his Hollywood minutes the stories are also very quick to read and are amazingly concise and well written in this super-short story format. He covers tales and anecdotes about the following groups: Great Hollywood Comedians, Science Fiction and Horror, OSCAR Tales, Great Hollywood Anecdotes, Western Vignettes, Walt Disney Stories (a specialty of Shochet's, Moguls and Directors, Silents to 'Talkies', Television Tales, Singers and Dancers, Drinking Tales, Leading Men and Leading Ladies Lore - each section brimming with laughter and insight that just makes Hollywood that much more of a center of entertainment. This book is far more than just a gossip book or a resource book for comedians, it is a solid history of a city whose credibility relies on dreams.
Grady Harp
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Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore.
Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry
Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained
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