Hollywood is a series of contemporary romance novels by Jackie Collins one of the most successful contemporary romance authors ever. Collins published Hollywood Wives the first novel in the Hollywood series of novels in 1983 before following it up with four more titles culminating in the 2003 published Hollywood Divorces. The Hollywood series comprises novels with different characters and diverse plots. However, the series of novels have a commonality in theme as they focus on the theme of celebrities, scandal, and power in Hollywood. Collins made a name for herself as a raunchy writer and the series is no different as it is full of head spinning sex right from the first page of each novel right to the last. The first novel in the series …show more content…
Lissa Roman is a beautiful music and movie superstar in her forties married to a young gold digger who treats her like trash and cheats on her. Nicci Stone her daughter is a hormone filled teenager who loves to party and is engaged to a gorgeous filmmaker named Evan only to discover that she likes his brother better. Taylor Singer is Roman’s friend and is a wannabe producer and actress married to a wealthy man, who forbids her from acting in racy movies. Taylor will have none of it a she believes she has to do whatever it takes including cheating on him with a stoned young screenwriter to pay her way into fame. Hollywood Husbands is another enthralling read in the Hollywood series of novels. In true masterpiece fashion, Collins writes of some of the most colorful of characters in a novel that starts at a first clip and never slows down for over 500 pages. Its characters include a billionaire studio head that never takes no for an answer, a teenage thing of a rock star, a cocaine dependent studio head, a charismatic television host losing his edge, and a mirthless and mysteriously aloof movie star all of whom are in a constant struggle to remain
The Entertainment Industry is an expanding industry with numerous career opportunities especially for the quick learning students in today’s world. I chose to study the entertainment industry because I have always had a passion for it. I grew up with music always playing on the radio and if the radio was off, the television was tuned into some show. I know many people listen to music and watch television all the time, but there is so much more to this industry. Being so passionate has led me to studying specific things in the industry and learning the ins and outs of it, which is helping me to find a potential career. There are many people in the industry that I look up to and one person, who has made it in particular, is Debra Rathwell.
Hollywood is not simply a point on a map; it is a representation of the human experience. As with any other location, though, Hollywood’s history can be traced and analyzed up to present day. In 1887, Harvey Henderson Wilcox established a 120-acre ranch in an area northwest of Los Angeles, naming it “Hollywood” (Basinger 15). From then on, Hollywood grew from one man’s family to over 5,000 people in 1910. By then, residents around the ranch incorporated it as a municipality, using the name Hollywood for their village. While they voted to become part of the Los Angeles district, their village was also attracting motion-picture companies drawn in by the diverse geography of the mountains and oceanside (15). The Los Angeles area continues to flourish, now containing over nine million people, an overwhelming statistic compared to Wilcox’s original, family unit (U.S. Census Bureau 1). However, these facts only s...
Titus, Ella, Angeline, and Pride. Titus is a sweet, strong, loving father; Ella is a kind, firm, loving mother; Angeline is Maddie’s older sister, who always does everything perfectly; and Pride is Maddie’s unhealthy baby brother.
Hollywood. The characters in this novel dream of a life of luxury, having lots of money, and living
For many of us “regular folk”, we dream of visiting California and seeing celebrities or even being one. We see Hollywood as a heaven or even a holy bubble that we all want to be in. This is not true for all, but it is for most. We as a society do not generally think of the negative impacts Hollywood and fame has on an individual. Carrie Fisher, with her wit, humor, and extreme honesty, takes us inside her life and gives us her insight on Hollywood based her upbringing. After going through multiple triumphs, tragedies, and revelations Fisher writes about it all in her book, Wishful Drinking, along with three other novels she has written. Now you see why I used the term “regular folk,” because Fisher is the opposite of a “regular folk.” Even
Charli Crandall- Charli is in the Crandall family. She is kind of the dark cloud of the family the one who doesn't really care about anything.
They are four old college to friends called the Flossy Posse but they lost connection over the years due to life situations. They decide re-uniting for a trip and they are going to the Essence Festival in New Orleans, where one of the ladies, Ryan, Regina Hall’s character has a prior engagement with her husband, Stewart. They all have very different personalities and even some quarrels amongst the group however, they have the best time of their live on this trip. The managed to become closer while supporting one another through some life trials. A sexless mom, uptight careerist, foul-mouthed party animal and frustrated celebrity blogger can best describe these four main
Fans of the novel found that the way the novel is written, you never want to put it down and the action keeps things moving and is quite entertaining. The novel pulls you in and makes you love each of the main characters in it. This is a great series for anyone to read, and it is audience friendly for whoever reads them. There is quite a bit of suspense that will make the novel exceed readers 's expectations, and the twists and turns keeps you guessing and lets nothing be predictable. Some like the way this group of people bands together when they really need to and keep things together so they can all stop the
A new edition to the course lineup, this week's film classic, Sunset Boulevard. This film will focus on the culture and environment of the Hollywood studio system that produces the kind of motion pictures that the whole world recognizes as "Hollywood movies." There have been many movies from the silent era to the present that either glamorize or vilify the culture of Hollywood, typically focusing on the celebrities (both in front of and behind the camera) who populate the "dream factories" of Hollywood. But we cannot completely understand the culture of Hollywood unless we recognize that motion pictures are big business as well as entertainment, and that Hollywood necessarily includes both creative and commercial
I will begin my essay by looking closely at the narrative of Sunset Boulevard to see where and how the film represents the Hollywood Studio System. At the beginning of the film the audience is introduced to Joe Gillis, a script writer who is struggling to pay his rent as he in unable to sell his scripts to the ‘majors’ of Hollywood. The film follows Joe to ‘Paramount Pictures’ one of the major studios in Hollywood, which the film pays a large self reference to as the producers of Sunset Boulevard as well as representing the studio system.
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We know everything about them and we know nothing about them; it is this conflicting concept that leaves audiences thirsty for a drink of insight into the lifestyles of the icons that dominate movie theater screens across the nation. This fascination and desire for connection with celebrities whom we have never met stems from a concept elaborated on by Richard Dyer. He speculates about stardom in terms of appearances; those that are representations of reality, and those that are manufactured constructs. Stardom is a result of these appearances—we actually know nothing about them beyond what we see and hear from the information presented to us. The media’s construction of stars encourages us to question these appearances in terms of “really”—what is that actor really like (Dyer, 2)?