Alice in Hollywoodland: Tales of a Would-Be Starlet

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“Can we pretend we’re broken up?” you ask. He doesn’t even look up from his phone. You scoot across the duct-taped seat of a curve-cornered dining booth inside a red and green American restaurant, resting your chin on his flannel-covered shoulder. “Babe?” you whisper.
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Your costar invites you to a party in the Hills as a friend. You later find out it was with the motive of making his ex jealous. She’s stunning, an Italian Rosario Dawson with Angelina’s jawline. You go out for the same roles—in fact, you booked the role you both auditioned for…
You’re worried about him, your boyfriend. He has a shirtless scene coming up, so he hasn’t had a sip of water since yesterday morning. He hasn’t eaten bread since last week. His heartbeat is erratic—puh-p-p-puh-p…puh—from energy pills that “speed up metabolism.” You used to be in…
The first man you ever sleep with is an Abercrombie & Fitch model. You don’t have sex. But you sleep. Well, he sleeps. It’s almost dawn and you’ve barely slept a wink. His swagger is the first thing you notice about him, limbs drawling like Western twang. He crosses your…

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Alice in Hollywoodland: Tales of a Would-Be Starlet

Memoirettes on womanhood and shifts of culture through the scandalous lens of Hollywood nostalgia.

Alice in Hollywoodland: Tales of a Would-Be Starlet

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