Tell-AllTell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 17 |
Section 4 | 23 |
Section 5 | 30 |
Section 6 | 36 |
Section 7 | 44 |
Section 8 | 52 |
Section 18 | 113 |
Section 19 | 118 |
Section 20 | 123 |
Section 21 | 126 |
Section 22 | 131 |
Section 23 | 136 |
Section 24 | 141 |
Section 25 | 144 |
Section 9 | 56 |
Section 10 | 63 |
Section 11 | 69 |
Section 12 | 78 |
Section 13 | 84 |
Section 14 | 93 |
Section 15 | 98 |
Section 16 | 102 |
Section 17 | 106 |
Section 26 | 149 |
Section 27 | 154 |
Section 28 | 157 |
Section 29 | 161 |
Section 30 | 165 |
Section 31 | 168 |
Section 32 | 172 |
Section 33 | 176 |
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