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Toby Young, Evening Standard Books of the Year
`My book of the year ... There's simply no more reliable guide to
contemporary Hollywood'
contemporary Hollywood'
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'My book of the year ... There's simply no more reliable guide to contemporary Hollywood' Toby Young, Evening Standard Books of the Year 'Very, very funny ... as riveting and real as gossip. Indeed, there's a brilliant section on the nature and meaning of Hollywood gossip ... There's just enough moral weight in this hugely enjoyable book to make you wonder if it's all really worth it' Frank Cottrell Boyce, Guardian 'Smart, dark, funny, and scary! That's the way I like my women. But that description also fits this delightfully appalling look at Hollywood. Read it and be glad all this stuff isn't happening to you' Harry Shearer of This Is Spinal Tap and The Simpsons 'I love Rob Long. His characters are Hollywood players and possibly the most cynical people on earth, and he captures this cynicism with deadpan precision. But he also manages to humanise these people, to show you how miserable they are. And this makes it even funnier. If you liked Larry Sanders, you'll love this' William Leith, author of The Hungry Years
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I was wary of this sequel to Conversations with my Agent, thinking it would be more of the same. And I was right. It is more of the same. And it's still hilarious. Nearly ten years have passed, and our man is still trying to get to grips with Hollywood and its absurd logic, his sitcom projects are still failing to get off the ground, and his monstrous agent continues to turn churlishness into high art. Despite all the back-biting and greed and vanity on show, these books also have a Wodehousian charm to them. This Hollywood is as far removed from the real world as Blandings Castle, its plots are as absurd, its characters as comic. And running through these books is the constant joke that the slipperiest customer of all is language itself:
ME: What was his tone?
MY AGENT: (V.O.) In a word, 'elegiac'. His tone was 'elegiac'. Some, with a smaller vocabulary and a lack of appreciation for nuance, which is not something I do not have, might say 'funereal'. But I think 'elegiac' conveys the proper ambiguity.
Hollywood satire is plentiful, but Rob Long manages to do it while insisting on the humanity of its players. Money aside, he seems to say, people do this because it's fun. Even when it's hell.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was a tiny bit disappointed by this after the very impressive predecessor. Take away the pages of double-spaced dialogue, and there's not much here at all, and you could easily read the book from cover to cover in a couple of hours, if not sooner. Having said that, this 'part fact, part fiction' account is very bright and breezy, with quite a few sharp gags, clever lines and the odd insight into the madness of today's entertainment business. Personally I like Long enough to prefer a more open, honest and detailed account of his travails, because he IS a witty man who has genuinely perceptive things to say, but if you just want a slick comic 'turn,' this will amuse you on a train trip or a waiting room.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Once again, Long takes us on a rollercoaster ride 'behind the scenes' in the land of show. This standalone 'sequel' is edgier and funnier than his earlier book.
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