Hollywood KidsHollywood Kids
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Book, 1995
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Current format, Book, 1995, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWherever there's money and glamour, trouble can't be too far behind. In
Hollywood Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the Hollywood Hills for
another absorbing page-turner of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge.
At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings
whose parents (all major players) thought that child-rearing ended with naming
their offspring after themselves. Jordanna Levitt is the wildly beautiful
daughter of a powerful producer and legendary movie star mother. Even though
she flaunts a coltish bad-girl image, Jordanna yearns for more than lounging
behind the velvet ropes in chi-chi clubs and existing on a diet of Midnight
Cowboys. Jordanna's best friend, Cheryl Landers, is a sassy, leggy redhead, who
is equally idle. Cheryl fills her days doing lunch and buying up Rodeo Drive
until a Hollywood Madam asks her to mind shop while she's out of town.
Pandering to the rich and famous goes so smoothly that she can't resist turning
a trick herself. Grant Lennon, Jr., the son of the last generation's wildly
handsome icon, is a junior agent at International Artists Agents. Not satisfied
with the number of starlets he can get on his own, he agrees to test-run
women for Cheryl's fledgling entrepreneurial venture for a fee. Marjory
Sanderson is a dreamy-eyed head case. Barely recovered from anorexia, she
invents one phobia fast on the heels of the last one in order to keep her
television magnate father's attention. Shep Worth, the effeminately beautiful
son of a sex-symbol mother, who won't publicly acknowledge her age, is a man
who won't publiclyacknowledge his alternative sexual preference.
The group had grown up together, sharing the experience of too much too soon,
Collins writes. When you've got your family's great looks, and you're always
driving next year's hottest sportscar, and work isn't necessary because you've
got a wallet filled with the sky's-the-limit credit cards -- why fight it?
These Hollywood kids have been given everything money can buy except a
raison d'e tre. Though their attitudes are large enough to fill any
room, these offspring of privilege are all desperately trying to figure out
what to do with themselves. However, life among the rich means life among the
damned. A recently released psycho-killer, erotically propelled by blood-lust,
is determined to wreak havoc and revenge on the kids' lives.
Interwoven into this central drama are the strong stories of a supporting cast
of characters: Michael Scorsinni, the street-smart ex-NYPD detective who is
doomed to traverse the country until he finds his kidnapped daughter; Bobby
Rush, the ambitious and talented actor/producer, who only has his Hollywood
Royalty lineage working against him; Kennedy Chase, the blonde and brilliant
young widow and journalist who puts the pieces together before the cops and
felicitously learns in the process that she's still capable of falling in love;
Luca Carlotti, the dandy mob kingpin with the cobra's smile and a weakness for
classy call-girls; and finally there's Charlie Dollar, the stoned movie-star
savant, perpetually on the prowl for women to fulfill his fantasy of a
polygamous idyll.
Not since best-selling superstar JackieCollins created Hollywood Wives,
the book which established a whole new standard for novels of the American
dream in the extreme, has she dealt so incisively and so revealingly with
tinseltown, and with the people who live and die there. Jackie Collins is back
doing what she does best, chronicling the lives of the rich, famous and
infamous with devastating accuracy. Hollywood Kids is Jackie Collins at
her suspenseful roller coaster ride best."
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- Thorndike, Me. : G.K. Hall ; Bath, Avon, England : Chivers Press, 1995, c1994.
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