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If you think that what Hollywood puts up on the big screen is melodramatic and beyond belief, it doesn't begin to rival what happens in its off-screen world. Over the years, Tinseltown has produced a Babylon of scandal—sordid pasts, wild parties, secret lovers, and tragic endings. Here, Rosemarie Jarski has caught the quips, ripostes, one-liners, put-downs, come-ons, and home truths that both celebrate and cut through all that glitz and excess. Every corner of Hollywood life is explored—sex and success, acting and addiction, money and moguls, fame and failure—as mud is slung, backs are scratched, pockets lined, and careers dissected.

If you think that what Hollywood puts up on the big screen is melodramatic and beyond belief, it doesn't begin to rival what happens in its off-screen world. Over the years, Tinseltown has produced a Babylon of scandal—sordid pasts, wild parties, secret lovers, and tragic endings. Here, Rosemarie Jarski has caught the quips, ripostes, one-liners, put-downs, come-ons, and home truths that both celebrate and cut through all that glitz and excess. Every corner of Hollywood life is explored—sex and success, acting and addiction, money and moguls, fame and failure—as mud is slung, backs are scratched, pockets lined, and careers dissected.