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Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher
By Adrian Maher
HUMOR
304 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF
Trade Paper, $16.99 (US $16.99) (CA $22.99)
ISBN 9781641601146
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Nov 2019)
Overview
Reviews
"Adrian Maher's gate-crasher capers would make any paparazzi proud: an ear for confrontation, a nose for action, and an eye for exquisite details. Nervy, amusing, and surreal. His Hollywood is a ceaseless and hair-raising series of nightly exploits and daily reckonings." â€â€Jennifer Buhl, author of Shooting Stars: My Unexpected Life Shooting Hollywood's Most Famous "A wackadoodle journey over, under, and around the velvet rope. A laugh-a-minute page-turner as dramatic as any multi-million dollar blockbuster. Hilarious, gripping, and revealing." â€â€Bill Kalmenson, Comedian, Actor, and Host of the hit podcast, "A Rebel Without Applause" "Adrian Maher's Uninvited is an uproarious account of his party-crashing adventures--and the quirky characters that shared his compulsions. It's also a forthright exploration of his own motives, a keen commentary on celebrity culture, and an offbeat anthropology of contemporary Los Angeles. Consider this your formal invitation to enjoy his madcap memoir." â€â€Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead "Aided by a Halloween gallery of fellow rogues and adrenaline junkies, Adrian Maher takes us on a joyous romp through backstage Hollywood dodging security, public relations flacks, and his own conscience. You'll be amazed at the chameleon disguises and side-door antics that put an everyman behind the hedge gates and face to face with Clint, Hef, Arianna, and the rest of Tinseltown's high and mighty. Deliciously subversive." â€â€James Rainey, Senior Reporter, Los Angeles Times "Used to think great gonzo journalism was dead until I picked up this magnificent trip through the world of hilarious party-crashing wackos and their obsessive weekly tango with class, fame, and hors d'oeuvres. I feel better now about gonzo journalism, though the country may be doomed." â€â€Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic "A rollicking tale about a bunch of social wannabes busting down Hollywood's closed-door industry, pushing boundaries, confronting obstacles, and nonstop risk-taking. Witty and illuminating . . . priceless moments and scenes. A grand narrative more bizarre than any movie script." â€â€Rick King, Film Producer, Point BreakAuthor Biography