If you think what Hollywood puts up on the big screen is melodramatic and beyond belief, it doesn`t begin to rival what happens in its off-screen world. Over the years, Tinseltown has produced a Babylon of scandal--sordid pasts, wild parties, secret lovers, and tragic endings. Here, Rosemarie Jarski has caught the quips, ripostes, on-liners, put-downs, come-ons, and home truths that both celebrate and cut through all that glitz and excess. Every corner of Hollywood life is explored--sex and success, acting and addiction, money and moguls, fame and failure--as mud is slung, backs are scratched, pockets lined, and careers dissected. Great fun.