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...contemporary, Lawrence introduces a medicine cabinet full of new pharmaceuticals and shaves more than 20 years off the women's ages (when Shadow opens in 1987, the women are roughly the same age they were when the first book ended in 1965), but she does little else to update Susann's formula...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls (Crown; 320 pages; $22), a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...
...contemporary, Lawrence introduces a medicine cabinet full of new pharmaceuticals and shaves more than 20 years off the women's ages (when Shadow opens in 1987, the women are roughly the same age they were when the first book ended in 1965), but she does little else to update Susann's formula. Anne and Neely still self-medicate, stage comebacks and sleep around, but the whole thing feels dutiful, even predictable. In her thinly veiled sketches of the wealthy and well known, Susann was one of the first to wallow in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. She could...
Jacqueline Susann wanted to be famous. She had no talent and daunting burdens--an autistic child, breast cancer. But she had an iron will, an indefatigable publicist husband named Irving Mansfield and an unsuspected gift for salacious tale telling. The couple reinvented the art of book promotion while making best sellers of novels like Valley of the Dolls. This miscast, miscalculated movie (Bette Midler and Nathan Lane star) wants them to be inspiring, missing the obvious point, which is their potentially instructive monstrousness. The result is one of the worst messes in years...