Valley of the Dolls

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Sheesh, the philistines I have to deal with daily! Just makes ya need somethin' to relax with: say, a handful of benzodiazepines, a mug of ice cream and The Captain, the latest issue of The Baffler, and some Esquivel on the Hi-Fi.

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What a scary story!! Encapsulated in a wonderful setting of New York in the 1900s. Anne, Jennifer & Neely felt like real people to me, and Anne has now become one of my favourite fictional characters <3 Let me write a sequel about her life after this ending!!Despite being a classic had I before I got asked if I wanted to participate in the blog tour never read nor seen the movie version of Valley of the Dolls. But, since I'm a daring person when it comes to books did I not hesitate to read it, despite not knowing much about the book. I do not know how big a hit the book was in Sweden when it was published, but I have never really heard that much about the book, could be because I was not born when it was published. So, it was interesting to read a book that so many people seem to like and that seemed to have been an inspiration source for other female writers. Don't bother coming up with complex motivations for when you need your characters to do stupid, destructive shit: just pin it on love. a b c Rebello, Stephen (2020). Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: deep inside Valley of the dolls, the most beloved bad book and movie of all time. [New York, New York]. pp.275–276, 280. ISBN 978-0-14-313350-6. OCLC 1127541604. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Valley of the Dolls (1994) starring Sally Kirkland, Colleen Morris, Melissa De Sousa and Sharon Case.

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Recent Radcliffe graduate Anne Welles is hired as a secretary at a theatrical agency which represents Helen Lawson, a cutthroat Broadway diva. Helen fears newcomer Neely O'Hara will upstage her, so she has Anne's boss pressure Neely to quit their upcoming show. Anne sours on show business after seeing Helen's cruelty toward Neely, but her boss's business partner, Lyon Burke, dissuades her from quitting the agency. Tony: “What do you want to be? Jesus! Miriam’s right. You want to own me, to dry me out! I give what I have to singing.”

Susann doesn't know when to stop, and that seems to be this book's biggest problem. She takes perfectly good characters and makes you hate them with such seething passion, you begin to question your hatred of pretty much everything else. She had, in this book, an opportunity to step away from stereotypes and deliver something real, but she didn't, and somehow, I'm disappointed that she didn't. In a way, I was glad for Jennifer's untimely death because at least her story didn't get stretched to a point that made no sense.

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In the end I called them all and they all came round and at three in the morning I died of pure pleasure. This is my ghost typing these words. I'm happy to report to all you bachelors out there that there are bikinis after death, and Lambourghinis, in case you were worrying about that. Gino: “Hi Anne I’m so glad you’re going to marry my son instead of some other ‘bimbo’ who only wants him for his money” Before embarking on her national tour—which never really stopped until she began hawking The Love Machine in 1969—Susann consulted a notebook she had kept while plugging Every Night, Josephine! Into it went minute notations about every reporter, bookshop clerk, and talk-show host she had encountered. Wives’ and kids’ names were recorded, as were birth dates, hobbies, and comments on their importance, personality, and physical appearance. “She studied it, memorized it, wrote the people on it letters,” says Love Machine publicist Abby Hirsch. “She was a politician.” Daniels, Mary. Susann's Best Love Story a Private Affair. Chicago Tribune. August 15, 1976. Retrieved January 10, 2017. Medved, Harry (1978). The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and How They Got That Way) (1sted.). Angus & Robertson. pp.272–274. ISBN 9780207958915.Susann had apparently been thinking about the novel for some time. Some years earlier, she had begun Underneath the Pancake, a show-business novel, with her actress friend Beatrice Cole (c. 1910–1999). [4] Later, she considered writing a novel about drug usage in show business to be called The Pink Dolls. [5]