Hollywood's Best (Hardcover)

They met at Nickodels - "RKO's Unofficial Commissary" Laura - a beauty contest winner Todd - a Canadian ice skater "Would you like to go?" The voice startled her and she looked up quickly from the Hollywood Reporter article she had been reading about the Ice Capades big star studded, invitation-only party to be held at the Pan Pacific Auditorium following tonight's Opening Night performance and telling herself it would be a good place to be "discovered." With talent, ambition and youthful zeal, each had come to seek their fortune in Hollywood - where talent alone is seldom enough; where "connections," political intrigue, the "casting couch," and just plain luck may be equally important; where powerful, sometimes violent forces help some succeed while others fail. In their struggles for success, Laura and Todd encounter a host of "show-biz" and underworld characters: A comedy team from Brooklyn, a multi-millionaire who wants to make movies, a City Councilman who is "on the take," the son of a wealthy Hollywood family who has secrets, a famous English director who has more secrets, and Peter Best - west coast head of Staten Island's infamous Crawford family. The intrigue and action takes Laura and Todd from Hollywood to New York, Europe, Canada and Las Vegas as they learn that Back Stage and behind the Silver Screen the sometimes savage, sometimes tragic, constantly exciting world of entertainment is not always what they expected and discover what it really takes to become "Hollywood's Best."