Moneywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess
WILLIAM STADIEM is the author of eight books, including the bestsellingMarilyn Monroe Confidential; Dear Senator; andMister S: My Life with Frank Sinatra.  A Harvard JD-MBA, he abandoned Wall Street for Sunset Boulevard, where as the screenwriter for Franco Zeffirelli’sYoung Toscanini, he wrote one of the biggest flops of the 80s.  As a screenwriter, a columnist for Andy Warhol’sInterview, and the restaurant critic forLos Angeles, Stadiem has enjoyed a ringside seat for the decadence and outrageousness he recounts inMoneywood.  He lives in Santa Monica, California.