Hollywood Kids

Hollywood Kids by Jackie Collins Wherever there’s money
and glamour trouble can’t be too far behind. In Hollywood
Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the
Hollywood Hills for another absorbing page-turner of sex
ambition and deadly revenge. At the novel’s core is the
Hollywood Five a clique of jaded twenty-somethings whose
parents (all major players) thought that child-rearing
ended with naming their offspring after themselves.
Jordanna Levitt is the wildly beautiful daughter of a
powerful producer and legendary movie star mother. Even
though she flaunts a coltish bad-girl image Jordanna
yearns for more than lounging behind the velvet ropes in
chi-chi clubs and existing on a diet of Midnight Cowboys.
Jordanna’s best friend Cheryl Landers is a sassy leggy
redhead who is equally idle. Cheryl fills her days doing
lunch and buying up Rodeo Drive until a Hollywood Madam
asks her to mind shop while she’s out of town. Pandering
to the rich and famous goes so smoothly that she can’t
resist turning a trick herself. Grant Lennon Jr. the son
of the last generation’s wildly handsome icon is a junior
agent at International Artists Agents. Not satisfied with
the number of starlets he can get on his own he agrees to
“test-run” women for Cheryl’s fledgling entrepreneurial
venture for a fee. Marjory Sanderson is a dreamy-eyed head
case. Barely recovered from anorexia she invents one
phobia fast on the heels of the last one in order to keep
her television magnate father’s attention. Shep Worth the
effeminately beautiful son of a sex-symbol mother who
won’t publicly acknowledge her age is a man who won’t
publicly acknowledge his alternative sexual preference.
“The group had grown up together sharing the experience of
too much too soon” Collins writes. When you’ve got your
family’s great looks and you’re always driving next year’s
hottest sports car and work isn’t necessary because you’ve
got a wallet filled with the sky’s-the-limit credit cards
— why fight it? These Hollywood kids have been given
everything money can buy except a raison d’?tre. Though
their attitudes are large enough to fill any room these
offspring of privilege are all desperately trying to
figure out what to do with themselves. However life among
the rich means life among the damned. A recently released
psycho-killer erotically propelled by blood-lust is
determined to wreak havoc and revenge on the kids’ lives.
Interwoven into this central drama are the strong stories
of a supporting cast of characters: Michael Scorsinni the
street-smart ex-NYPD detective who is doomed to traverse
the country until he finds his kidnapped daughter; Bobby
Rush the ambitious and talented actor/producer who only
has his Hollywood Royalty lineage working against him;
Kennedy Chase the blonde and brilliant young widow and
journalist who puts the pieces together before the cops
and felicitously learns in the process that she’s still
capable of falling in love; Luca Carlotti the dandy mob
kingpin with the cobra’s smile and a weakness for classy
call-girls; and finally there’s Charlie Dollar the stoned
movie-star savant perpetually on the prowl for women to
fulfill his fantasy of a polygamous idyll. Not since
best-selling superstar Jackie Collins created Hollywood
Wives the book which established a whole new standard for
novels of the American dream in the extreme has she dealt
so incisively and so revealingly with Tinseltown and with
the people who live and die there. Jackie Collins is back
doing what she does best chronicling the lives of the rich
famous and infamous with devastating accuracy. Hollywood
Kids is Jackie Collins at her suspenseful roller coaster
ride best.