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Beneath a Starlet Sky - Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper (2011)
If you love Hollywood gossip and fashion, this is the book for you. As a sequel to the authors' previous novel, Celebutantes, this novel continues to follow the life of Lola Santis. Lola is now the CEO of her friend Julian Tenant's struggling fashion line. As the daughter of a famous Hollywood director, Lola grew up in the limelight and she now wants to avoid all of the craziness of Hollywood and maintain a quieter life with her doctor boyfriend, Lev. Lola finds herself at Cannes Film Festival desperately trying to keep her career intact, while dealing with drunk models, a mother who is shooting a reality television show, a brother and father who are competing in the same directing category, the dramatic aftermath of a recent break-up between her best friend and brother, and endless people who are trying to sabotage her fashion show. When Lev, her rock of sanity, gets offered a minor part as a doctor in a television sitcom and starts getting spray tans and eyebrow waxes, Lola sees her life crashing around her. The authors provide a great insiders' view of the absurdity of Hollywood. (AO)
The duo who brought you Celebutantes (Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper) are back with its sequel in April. Beneath a Starlet Sky is set around the star-studded Cannes Film Festival. The summary says: "Lola Santisi, CEO of a struggling fashion line, reformed Actorholic and daughter of Hollywood Royalty, is now not only bicoastal, she's Bi-Lolar: That is the condition which causes her to swing like a pendulum between the opposing poles of the fashion world in New York and the real world with her Doctor Boyfriend in Los Angeles. She hardly knows which shoe fits her anymore: the Louboutin stiletto or the Croc. As Lola tries to launch Julian Tennant's new dress line, it looks like they're about to get their next big break: his wedding dresses have been chosen to feature in the top film at the Cannes Film Festival. And suddenly Lola is staging a full-blown couture show on a yacht - in the middle of the Med. Think those supermodels had trouble walking down the catwalks at Fashion Week? With an unexpected finale twist, this time it's Lola who's tumbling off the runway. Having recently endured a disastrous break-up with Lola's brother Christopher, Kate Woods, Lola's BFF and CAA's rising star agent, is newly single, and focused 24-7 on her clients. The only thing worse than thinking it was a good idea for Kate to date Lola's brother, is thinking it was a good idea for Kate to put one of her most loose-cannon clients, Nic Knight, in Lola's father's movie. Among Kate's other mega star clients is Saffron Sykes whose appearance on the cover of Vain magazine in Julian Tennant could be the difference between Julian Tennant, Inc. weathering the economy or going bust. As Lola fights to survive the Cannes Film Festival, will she get swept into the French Riviera's riptide of glamour and superficiality? Are real love and couture mutually exclusive? Or can Lola have it all - the good doctor and her Louboutins. With her father and brother vying for the same prize, her mother starring in her new reality show, and one heartbroken girlfriend about to declare motherhood, it's all on Lola to come up with the answers. And it's going to take more than one of her mother's prosperity chants to save the day."