These new books are ready for their closeups: ‘From Dust to Stardust,’ ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,’ ‘Do Tell’ and ‘The Enchant…
From hellhole to benign workplace, there’s a Tinseltown for everyone in new books about making movies.
Maybe those fans are filling in the gaps with Hollywood-themed books? For whatever reason, a lot of current and upcoming fiction tackles moviemaking, ranging from Kathleen Rooney’s “From Dust to Stardust,” due Sept. 5 and mostly set in the silent film era, to Tom Hanks’ “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,” which takes place on the present-day set of a Marvel-like movie.
“The Enchanters” also underscores one thing that might be a rule for Hollywood novels: Use real names. Ellroy’s profane, scuzzy, hilarious tale is crammed with dope — real or imagined — on dozens of celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor and the aforementioned POTUS. It gives his book a huge leg up because we know these “characters” the second he name-drops them.
One thing “Do Tell” teaches us is that it doesn’t really seem like gossip unless you know who’s being gossiped about. Ellroy clearly knows that — it almost doesn’t matter if what he says is true about Montgomery Clift because, once Ellroy has mentioned it and dozens of other tawdry tidbits, it feels true in his book’s gritty world.
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