The First Assistant: A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain - Hardcover

Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034975 ISBN 13: 9780670034970

Publisher: Viking, 2006

Synopsis

The further fortunes of everyone?s favorite assistant as she struggles to keep her footing on Hollywood?s slippery slope

In The Second Assistant, readers fell in love with smart, witty East Coast girl Elizabeth Miller. Now that Lizzie has been promoted, can she still keep her pumps firmly on the ground in the city of stars? With a viperish subordinate after her job, the world?s hottest teen starlet to keep out of trouble and a boyfriend on location with a beautiful actress, she certainly has her hands full.

The satire is sharper than ever as Naylor and Hare take another wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the world. The First Assistant is a lesson in how to survive in a town where tonight?s Oscar frock is tomorrow?s laughing stock.

About this title

About the Author:

Clare Naylor is the author of three previous novels, including Love: A User’s Guide and Catching Alice.
Mimi Hare was, at twenty-three years old, the director of development for a Hollywood production company, where she worked on such feature films as Jerry Maguire and As Good as It Gets. This is her first novel.

From AudioFile:

Lizzie Miller, a sort of Bridget Jones in Hollywood, is first assistant to the head of a major talent agency. She also has a famous director boyfriend, a second assistant who behaves like a tarantula, and a pal who cheated her out of producer credit on a movie she helped him set up. He gives the credit back, though, when an early screening goes badly and he wants to share the blame. There is something oddly low-energy about Shelly Frasier's reading, though she is thoroughly adept and the story itself is a fairy tale comic romp. Frasier's Lizzie is a loveable goofball, and even her libertine but loyal teen screen diva, Emerald, charms. It's all daft, but a lot of fun. B.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670034975
• ISBN 13: 9780670034970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288