{"id":111,"date":"2012-04-12T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morefrommom.com\/hollywood-stories-book-review-and-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2013-12-15T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T00:42:17","slug":"hollywood-stories-book-review-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morefrommom.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Stories book review and giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IHk1Y1Gspkk\/T4bXjs9FcjI\/AAAAAAAABrk\/npKRnJAu1Vc\/s1600\/hollywoodstories.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IHk1Y1Gspkk\/T4bXjs9FcjI\/AAAAAAAABrk\/npKRnJAu1Vc\/s200\/hollywoodstories.jpg\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\">I was given this book to review. I have to say it&#8217;s not what I usually read but I loved it. It has so many different stories about actors\/writers in Hollywood. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><br \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\">Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11px;\">By Stephen Schochet<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Genre: Film\/History\/Humour<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Synopsis: At high noon on a cold November day in 1974,  sixty-seven-year-old John Wayne faced off with the staff of the Harvard  Lampoon on the famous campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The students  had issued their challenge by calling the beloved American icon a fraud.  Wayne, who had his new movie McQ to promote, responded by saying he  would be happy to show his film in the pseudo-intellectual swamps of  Harvard Square. After the screening, without writers, the former USC  footballer delivered a classic performance. When one smart young man  asked where he got his phony toupee, Wayne insisted the hair was real.  It wasn&#8217;t his, but it was real. The appreciative underclassmen loved him  and after the Q and A session, they all sat down to dinner. Later  Wayne, who was suffering greatly from both gout and the after effects of  lung cancer (sadly the Duke only had five years to live), said that day  at Harvard was the best time he ever had.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Just when you thought you&#8217;ve heard everything about Hollywood comes a  totally original new book &#8212; a special blend of biography, history and  lore.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about  famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been a part of  the world&#8217;s most fascinating, unpredictable industry!<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">What makes the book unique is that the reader can go to any page and  find a completely engaging and illuminating yarn. Sometimes people won&#8217;t  realize that they are reading about The Three Stooges or Popeye the  Sailor until they come to the end of the story. The Midwest Book Review  says Hollywood Stories is, &#8220;packed from cover to cover with fascinating  tales.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features  an amazing, all-star cast of legendary characters and icons and will  keep you totally entertained!<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; 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