num_pages: 256
description: A former member of the Hollywood rat race, herself, Julia Cameron leads us through a labyrinth of intersecting lives and turns that could only exist in our own backyard Babylon. In Hollywood Stories, the lives of stars are as likely to collide in the psychic’s waiting room as they are on-set or in the pages of the tabloids. Featured the only actor in Hollywood who doesn’t want to sleep with his co-star, , a studio head who has secret "talks" with the ghost of history’s most beloved animator, a hard-boiled journalist who succumbs to the charms of a philandering director, a hairdresser who has to be blackmailed into doing you-know-who’s hair, a filmmaker who’s just a cowgirl at heart, a screenwriter who’s battled the old boy’s network to find she’s got more highballs than high hopes, a homeopathist asked to prescribe something to make Hollywood’s most feared actress "nicer," a tony New York editor with an acute case of moviephobia, and an actress with enough character to write a happy ending. You might call it fiction, but Cameron calls this "friction—the abrasion of reality against dreams." And while none of the tales in Popcorn are true (just ask our lawyers), every one of them pops.
language: English
title: Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
titlecomplete: Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Really Great Books