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Summary: Why do we care
Review: About what this guy has to say about fashion, or anything else for that matter? How this guy gets 15 minutes of anything is beyond me and a sad commentary on our celeb driven society. I personally could care less about any celebrity except Hasselhoff. Hoff is the sun when it comes to the hollywood galaxy. There would be no entertainment industry without him. Oh my goodness, brad and Jen split, who the heck gives a badger's butt? I really don't care what celebrities wear, who they're dating and how much their home(s) cost. VH1 now has become E!, so my garbage intake can double. We actually sit and watch shows that rub how much celebs spend in our faces. We eat it up. You know what celebrities are? They are people with a different job than us that some are really good at. They just make gobs of money and many are really pretty after their $800/hr makeup artist gets through with them. This culture of ours cares way too much about them and worships them as if they are godlike figures. This cojo goof has a career because there are enough losers that will actually care about what Lindsey Lohan wears to an awards show. She could wear a firesuit and a ten gallon hat and I wouldn't care at all. Ok, I'm done.
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Summary: 2 Thumbs Up!!
Review: Finally!! I've been anxiously awaiting for someone to put what all of us (non-celebrities) have been suspecting for years! Steven truly is the Howard Stern of fashion. Once I started to read this book I couldn't put it down. Each page is filled with humor, heart and intelligence. I truly felt as though I was with Steven during all of his journeys, including the "Red Carpet." Never before has there been such a well written fun book by someone who has the guts, brains and experience to back it all up!! Kudos to Cojo for a job well done!! My only question is when is the next book being released?
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Summary: Steven Cojocaru is a nice guy but this book is [bad].
Review: I don't think even one editor at Ballantine ever read this book before it was sent off for printing. There are typos everywhere and there is no overall theme to tie these random chit-chatty stories together. A few of his stories are funny, but for the most part, this is a total yawn, and the celebrity bits are skimpy and boring. Steven Cojocaru's life, on which this book goes into a fair amount of detail, is also rather uninteresting. I got this for free at the book launch in Beverly Hills or else I never would have bothered. Don't waste your money on this. Check it out from the library or wait for it to come out in paperback. There must be better tell-all glamour-world books out there.
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Summary: Steven Cojocaru is a Hollywood genius!!
Review: I have been following Steven Cojocaru for years now, from E! to People Magazine to the Today show and could not wait for this book to come out! Not surprising at all, it was amazing! He has every single celebrity down to a science, whether they are B-list, A-list, or anywhere in between. The book keeps you laughing from cover to cover, and was impossible to put down. I finished it in 1 day. Especially in these times of war, we all need a little comic relief, and this book is absolutely it! "Cojo" has every single one of his fingers on the pulse of Hollywood and unleashes every untold secret from the red carpet. Whether you are celebrity-obsessed or simply just a normal folk, this book is 100% a MUST-READ!!
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Summary: Waiting for his next book
Review: I love celebrities and their clothes and their makeup and reading about them, so I enjoyed this book. My only complaint was that I wanted more backstage dish. Steven's section in People magazine is second only to the celebrity clothes pictures. I loved Melissa Rivers comment on Elizabeth Taylor. More pictures and dish in your next book, Steven!
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Summary: Perfect dish.
Review: I love Cojo's sassy commentary on tv and in People. This book lives up to his honesty on the red carpet. He always tells it like it is and this book is no exception. It's not brain science, but it's fun and fluffy, and he never claims to be doing much more than having a good time. I spent a very satisfying afternoon immersed in the glam world of celebrities and Cojo.
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Summary: As Hollywood Inside Info Goes ...
Review: I love Hollywood gossip books. This was the biggest waste of paper ever (and mind you, without the added highlighted quotes taking up most of the page ...) Really no inside scoop on anyone or anything, much less the author himself. A series of "aren't I cute" quotes that made me feel quite empty at the end. One of the most shallow people I have ever read about, used to like his appearances, now he makes my skin crawl.
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Summary: As Hollywood Inside Info Goes ...
Review: Self-described 'ugly duckling' from Montreal lands in Hollywood and hob-nobs with the rich and famous on Hollywood's Red Carpet. However, about 85% of this skimpy (165 pages) journal is about his transformation into an 'oddity' rather than the uglier duckling (or as he says on the last pages; from a scale of 1-10 he went from a 1 to a 5). The other 15% is just filler...dropping a celebrity name here and there in bold print, mind you (he must have smartly sensed the average reader would be skimming this dread, and really, there's not much to skim). Literally, that is all there is - until he shares his new-found wisdom on the last page; "beauty is only skin deep - it's what's inside that counts". Truly profound.How anyone can make experiences on the Red Carpet seem so lifeless and dull is beyond me. On the book jacket, it says that this is Cojocaru's first book. Hopefully, it will be his last.
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Summary: dreadful just dreadful !
Review: Some witty, funny stories and insights from the glamorous red carpet world. That's pretty much all this book has to offer. The rest of the space is the tale of the author's attempts to make it in Hollywood as...whatever it is he is. The major flaw of the book is the fact that Steven put himself into it way too much and for such a colorful person his life story is far from the autobiography of a starlet. Honestly you read more about what HE'S wearing than what the stars are wearing. And he's not the best writer in the world. BUT, he is funny and the little quotes and anecdotes on the book jacket are enough to rate this materialistic fluff 3 stars. But Steven should definately not quit his day job.
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