Celebutantes Book

Lola Santisi is a twenty-six-year-old member of Hollywood Royalty (Papa’s vying for Best Director Oscar #2 and Mom’s a fixture at The Ivy). She suffers from Actorholism (a fatal addiction to dating hunky actors) and CDD (Career Deficit Disorder, an epidemic among children of Hollywood Royalty). Her latest gig as a Hollywood Ambassador means she’s been engaging in L.A.’s cruelest blood sport: trying to persuade celebrities to wear a certain designer’s gown to the Oscars. Her best friend Kate is an ambitious Hollywood talent agent desperate to move from the B-list to the 'über-list.' Together with their other friend Cricket (an actress best known for her role as 'lead coma victim'), they navigate the real action leading up to the Oscars—the swag parties, the social maneuvering, the aura cleansing, and the soirées—and the hottest of all exclusive after-Oscars invites: the Vanity Fair party.

Publishers Weekly

Gawker.com meets Glamourin this insider's look at Oscar week penned by L.A. junior royalty: Goldberg, producer Leonard Goldberg's daughter, has worked for Todd Oldham; Khalighi Hopper, daughter of Dennis Hopper and Daria Halprin, produced and starred in the indie film Americano. After a disastrous turn acting and bedding her superhunk co-star, Lola Santisi, 26 and the daughter of famed director Paul Santisi, swears off actors and acting for good. But Lola agrees to be the Hollywood ambassador for "Best Gay Forever" designer Julian Tennant, to help get a major actress to wear one of his dresses at the Oscars. Lola woos an array of glitterari, each more self-absorbed than the next in the runup to Graydon Carter's famed Vanity Fairbash, and competes against the ruthless Prada ambassador Adrienne Hunt for the plum actor bods. There's up-to-the-minute star chatter and fashion name-checking throughout; wonderfully dead-on moments as Lola negotiates underlings to get on set; and a possibly fatal relapse of actor fever. The shallowness is more severe than Angelina's neckline, but that's the point, and it quickly becomes imperative to discover just who is going to wear Julian Tennant to the Oscars. (Feb.)

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