Hollywood Husbands HC Jackie Collins Simon & Shuster 1986

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HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS Hardcover
by Jackie Collins (Author)

Hollywood Husbands are hot…Hollywood Husbands are dynamic…Hollywood Husbands are sexy…

Jack Python is the hottest Hollywood Husband of all. He rules nighttime T.V. and his controversial talk show burns up the ratings, while the women he encounters melt. With one expensive divorce behind him, and involved in a highly erotic affair with Oscar-winning actress Clarissa Browning, Jack Python has power, charisma, success, and money. But sometimes everything isn’t enough.

Howard Soloman, head of Orpheus Studios, is the man, the Hollywood King. Anything Howard wants, he gets. Including women. The sweet smell of power and Howard’s street-smart style reels them in. Working for billionaire studio owner Zachary Klinger, a man with a whim of iron, Howard has problems enough. And if Howard can’t deliver daytime soap megastar Silver Anderson at Klinger’s command, he may lose his footing at the top of the heap. Though in Hollywood it’s said that when you fall, you fall up — from the top Howard has nowhere to go but down.

Mannon Cable is a superstar. With great looks and a body to match, he is full of self-deprecating charm. Married briefly to gorgeous Whitney Valentine, who left him to become a television superstar, he was hit by the divorce where it really hurts — his giant ego.

Jack Python, Howard Soloman, and Mannon Cable have been competitive friends foryears. Yet when Jade Johnson enters their lives, the least-expected one of the self-styled “Three Comers” may have finally met his match.

Jade Johnson is a woman of the eighties. Strong, independent, a top New York model, she comes to L.A. for a series of million-dollar TV commercials. Jade is a dangerously beautiful woman with personal integrity and a mind of her own. The Hollywood game fails to impress her, but slowly, surely, she is sucked in. And, high roller that she is, if she must play, Jade will play to win.

HOLLYWOOD WIVES,with its ten-million copy sales, and its spectacular success as a television mini-series, left Jackie Collins’ devoted audience avid for the other side of the story.

NOW

HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS

GO ALL THE WAY!

As in Hollywood Wives, Collins (Lucky colorfully depicts the brash hedonists of Tinseltown, most of whom are motivated by avarice, lust and conceit. The central trio in this lengthy saga consists of movie star Mannon Cable, studio executive Howard Soloman and TV talk-show host Jack Python. Although Mannon has married compliant young Melanie-Shanna, he vows to win back his ex-wife, Whitney. Cocaine addict Howard pursues Whitney though he is wed to a gossipy society gadabout. Jack courts an illustrious actress, but he becomes infatuated with Jade Johnson, a willowy, self-possessed model. Jack’s sister, imperious soap-opera star Silver Anderson, doesn’t know that her lover is desperately trying to extricate himself from a potentially lethal business deal. While these escapades unfold, we must guess which female was a sexually abused arsonist in the 1970s. Collins’s devotees will probably relish the snappy dialogue, whirlwind pacing, irreverent humor and opulent locales that are her trademarks.

Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

After the huge success of “Hollywood Wives” in 1984 Jackie Collins (my favorite writer ever) came out with “Hollywood Husbands” in 1986 as a follow-up. Although definitely not a sequel to the first “Hollywood” book, “Hollywood Husbands” is the first in a long line of novels Collins would write with the word Hollywood in the title and with Hollywood as the backdrop.

In “Hollywood Husbands” we meet several men who are as different as any male species could ever be. All though are caught up in the fast lane of Tinsletown and battling the terrible bug of financial and critical success in an industry that not only destroys career in the drop of a hat, but also ruins souls.

First up is Jack Python who produces a talk show and is involved with an Oscar-winning actress, but finds money and women are not enough. Then we have Howard Soloman who owns a studio. Having three divorces to his credit he is currently married to a creature that spends money faster than a lighting bolt. My favorite character is Mannon Cable who has sex appeal and charm and is a superstar. He’s having a hard time dealing with his past divorce and it’s up to his current wife to salvage him.

These three men are all friends and their lives are forever changed when a young, beautiful model from New York enters their lives. The question is, “will they survive?”.

Fun, engrossing and highly entertaining I thoroughly enjoyed “Hollywood Husbands” and found myself at the end wanting to read more about these characters. Simply a great book and one of Collin’s best!

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