Shooting Hollywood: The Diana Poole Stories

Melodie Johnson Howe was, as she says in the introduction to this collection of criminous Hollywood, "one of the last of the starlets." While she was making movies with Clint Eastwood, Alan Alda, James Caan, James Farentino and others, she was honing the craft of writing. Diana Poole, blonde, sexy, and in her 40's, is trying to rebuild her acting career playing middle-aged parts. But Hollywood is brutal, and it is a place, as Marilyn Monroe said, "where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul ... Diana Poole finds crime in that world of glitz, glamour, and greed.