New Hollywood Memoir by Showbiz David Hits the Amazon Shelves Around Christmas

Follow Broadway dreamers Mike and David down to LA, believing they are the next Rodgers and Hammerstein waiting to be discovered. Toiling in the shadows of Tinseltown, where on dozens of small stages eager young actors fresh off the bus share the spotlights with forgotten screen idols and new stars rising, the two collaborators are soon cured of their heady illusions. Author-playwright David Lewis evokes an amusing memoir of his years in that dream-drenched world, set in the 1980s – amusing until the City of Angels sends the two dreamers down separate paths, one ultimately tragic. 

Hopelessly Hollywood: My Dreamland Diary, from Small Town Extra to Musical Thaetre King for a Day, is a story of the town’s seductive spell over Lewis — from Bette Davis making a movie in his home town, to the night in Hollywood when he learned that his musical about the Ringling brothers was Broadway bound. That’s what he was told. That’s what he read. And you can read all about it in this factually fascinating tale of life with real people in a real place — otherwise famed for glitter, glory, hype and heartache, and star-studded scandals. Here is Hollywood laid bare. Hollywood with a soul.

260 pages/illustrated/$14.95