Celebutantes

by Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper

Book Overview

Prepare to enter a world of what fashion designer Michael Kors has called "stylish intrigue, glamorous machinations, and such juicy fun." Take a wild ride with Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, who have culled their insider's purview to peel back Oscar's legendary curtain and reveal what really goes on under the sheets of Young Hollywood. Do Happy Hollywood Endings really exist, or does everyone end up on the cutting room floor sooner or later?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312362307
• ISBN13: 9780312362300
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Hoping for a sequal

This book is so catchy. It makes you want to sneak to the bathroom at work to see what's going to happen next. It's a very light read and can definately capture all of your attention. I would recommend this book to anyone who would love to just get consumed by a novel, but not feel like they fried their brain along the way.

A look inside Hollywood

Loved this book!!! A quick read that gives you an inside look at Hollywood the week leading up to the Oscars!! A great beach read!

This year's first laugh out loud

I admit it, I read and watch too much tabloid gossip. I picked up Celebutantes hoping to distract myself from a much dreaded plane flight. I also enjoy books by Hollywood "insiders" hoping to match fictional characters with thier real-life counterparts. It didn't take too many pages to make me forget the matching game, and just concentrate on Lola Santisi's attempt to secure a "star" to wear her best friend Julian's designs on the Oscar's red carpet. Liberally populated with real names and over the top characters, the book focuses on Lola's attempt to not only to help Julian, but her struggle to get over her addiction to disasterous relationships with actors. Aided by her friends Kate and Cricket, both seeking thier own Hollywood dream, Lola plunges headfirst into the scramble to procure a star for Julian. She is also trying to cope with her family's near hysteria driven by her father's nomination for a Best Directing Oscar and hopes to once regain his place as a force in the industry. Filled with inside, good natured pokes at Hollywood's obsession with the next big thing and self importance, Celebutantes is a fun, fun read. By the end of the book I was trying in vain to stifle my snorts of laughter as I tried to finish this impossible to put down book at work. A rolicking good read.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

You'll need to smoke a cigarette after reading this book. Orgasmically laugh-out-loud funny, it's soooo easy to believe that these characters are those attractive morons you see "gracing" the cover of the Enquirer and Star! (I knew they were like this all along!) How wonderful to know that this was written by people really "in the know," daughters of Hollywood "royalty," That just helps me legitimize the smug sense of disgust I feel when I see them begging for celebrity while running from the photographers. I love it! I read it, and I don't feel one bit guilty for gulping down this amazing bit of brain candy. It was delicious!

A fun insider's look at Hollyweird

The East Coast had "The Devil Wears Prada." Now the West Coast has "Celebutantes". This is such a terrifically fun, in-the-know read. You just know these women have seen the inside of every swag bag and Fred Segal dressing room. I'd call reading this hilarious novel the best guilty pleasure I've had in months, except that I don't feel remotely guilty for getting to laugh out loud so much. If you've ever cheered Kathy Griffin on as she snarks on the celebs on the red carpet, smirked along with the Gofugyourself girls, or wondered along with the tabs "Would You Be Caught Wearing This?", you're gonna LOVE this novel!