You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

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Summary: You'll Never Eat Lunch Without This Book
Review: (...) Sure thereare references to people in this book that are unexplained. That ishow life is. Nobody can say they know absolutely every single personin one person's life. The writing is a clear insight to the womanbehind the book. It is fast paced and inconsistent which is obviouslyhow her mind works. As far as my opinion on this book goes I think itis one of the most profound books with some of the most intelligentsayings ever written. You don't have to be in showbusiness tounderstand it nor do you have to be interested. This is about aperson's life in which any reader can associate on atleast one leveror another. To call it a tell all is absurd because it isn't avicious attack on those mentioned. It is offered in a brutally honestway. This book is the equivalent to riding on an unseen rollercoaster in the dark. If you have the stomach and brain for it thenfasten your seatbelts and pray that the end won't come to soon.

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Summary: light but psychologically revealing and probing
Review: a bittersweet, surprisingly well-written exploration of the inner workings of Hollywood. Helps tear down the veneers put up by the award shows and tabloids but is equally indulgent.

Phillips comes across as a "gossiper" but also as an endearing creative spirit who struggled with demons in a harsh world.

That's entertainment!

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Summary: You'll Never Finish This Book
Review: After hearing about this book on tv, I was getting curious. I had to order it at a bookstore and while waiting for it I was getting more and more anxious. Well after reading a few pages I quickly found out this book was stupid stupid stupid. It is clear in todays world you have to possess no writing skills to be an "author". It is a complete waste of money to buy this book.

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Summary: You'll Never Want To Read This Book Again
Review: After hearing so much about this book for so long, I was extremely disappointed by the results. The most interesting portion was what a producer goes through to make a movie, but I don't need 500 pages to find that out, especially when approximately 450 pages deal with her drug intake and sexual escapades with a long line of loser boyfriends. I kept reading thinking that sooner or later it would get better. Wrong. One of the most self absorbed books ever written.

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Summary: a great beach read
Review: After reading all of the reviews to date, I must say that I read this book shortly after it came out and found it informative and amusing. Hollywood is a strange place. I am sure that Julia Phillips took some "literary liscense" in her telling of the tale, but no one could write a book as comprehensive as hers without some sort of feeling or meaning. It is worth a read, especially for anyone enamored with the L.A. film life!

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Summary: No one is spared, not even the butler.....
Review: Do you want to know what really goes on behind the scenes? Behind the doors of oversized mansions that house beautiful antiques, Van Gogh masterpieces, and people who want you to love them, but not know them? If you don't mind having your idol's foibles laid bare for the whole world to see. Read this book. Simply put, read this book.

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Summary: incredibly boring
Review: Good alternate titles for this book would be "Look at Me, I'm Self Absorbed" or "Drugs Make You Boring."

If you're old enough to have a mild interest in reading very dull anecdotes about people like Al Pacino and Robert Redford -- and you can find some entertainment value in endless pages of "then I took a Valium, and then I took some cocaine, and then I glimpsed Liza Minelli in the crowd, and then I took half a Valium" interspersed with more endless pages of "my mommy wasn't perfect, poor poor me!" then you might be able to tolerate this book.

Otherwise, I don't recommend it.

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Summary: incredibly boring
Review: Good alternate titles for this book would be "Look at Me, I'm Self Absorbed" or "Drugs Make You Boring."

If you're old enough to have a mild interest in reading very dull anecdotes about people like Al Pacino and Robert Redford -- and you can find some entertainment value in endless pages of "then I took a Valium, and then I took some cocaine, and then I glimpsed Liza Minelli in the crowd, and then I took half a Valium" interspersed with more endless pages of "my mommy wasn't perfect, poor poor me!" then you might be able to tolerate this book.

Otherwise, I don't recommend it.

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Summary: A book that's impossible NOT to put down
Review: I bought this book hoping to find some juicy tales of Hollywood high-ups running amok, but the price is far too extravagant: wading through pages, if not chapters, of self-absorbed twaddle by this thoroughly uninteresting woman. Only the people mentioned in this book will have the self-interest to read all the way through. If you want to read much more entertaining accounts of Hollywood improprieties, I recommend "Hit and Run" or "Easy Riders & Raging Bulls" or even the very poorly edited (but enjoyable) "High Concept".

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Summary: Goodbye, Julia
Review: I felt Julia had a huge ego -- like many other Hollywood characters I have met. This pertains especially to the "Suits," who really are quite uncultured. However, Julia died yesterday, so I will not speak ill of the dead. R.I.P., Julia.

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