YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Phillips, Julia

New York, 1991, Randon, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, Fine/Fine condition ( very small tear on bottom of dj rear cover ), 6 1/2 x 9 12, 573 pages, index.......................................................................Forget every book you've ever read purporting to be an insider's account of Hollywood. Here is an addictive, no-holds-barred, gloves-off narrative by the producer of The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. From the public functions to the private lies, from bedroom to boardroom, restaurant to set, past to present, this is entertainment on an epic scale.......................................................................Brilliantly hilarious and moving, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again takes you on a sojourn through the dream-manufacturing capital of the world, from the halcyon era of the seventies to the yuppie-infested eighties, through the vortex of drug addiction and rehab, on the arm of one who saw it all, did it all, and took her leave.Here are the stars and star agents, the doctors and directors, the CEOs and gangsters, the politicians and smugglers who populate Phillips's milieu. In a style that is very much her own, she has captured the voice of a generation. As Anne Rice notes, "Her writing unites reader and subject in an absolutely riveting fashion. Would that there were an Oscar for Best Hollywood Book.