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Lynch’s book could benefit from star names. A sort-of memoir by a fictional gossip columnist named Edie O’Dare, “Do Tell” has an entertaining point of view — columnists are usually the villains of Hollywood books, not the stars, and Lynch has compelling insight into why her protagonist slides from second-rate acting to first-rate tittle-tattling. But too much of “Do Tell” describes events, rather than enlivening them, and her dozens of Hollywood characters aren’t memorable.
One thing “Do Tell” teaches us is that it doesn’t really seem like gossip unless you know who’s being gossiped about. Ellroy clearly knows that — it almost doesn’t matter if what he says is true about Montgomery Clift because, once Ellroy has mentioned it and dozens of other tawdry tidbits, it feels true in his book’s gritty world.
Kathleen Rooney’s Hollywood is, like Hanks’, a kinder one. Central character Doreen O’Dare is a silent movie ingenue who is telling her story, many decades later, to a woman who’s putting together a museum exhibit about O’Dare’s career and the one-ton dollhouse whose pieces the actor collected over the course of it.
There’s not much narrative momentum but Rooney has done her research and she presents it gracefully, whether it’s how much makeup needed to be applied for early, black-and-white movies , what happened to Mary Pickford’s career and how showbiz has treated women during its more than 100-year history .
Like Ellroy’s and other vivid novels about the movies, it works because it seems to be creating a movie in your mind.
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