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Title: Toot the 70's.
Review: A failing actress slides into insanity on a Mexican movie set, the coke addled screenwriter arrives to lend assistance. The director, directors father, actress understudy, PR man, Mexican writer, all clearly 2 dimensional stock characters . This book is poor by every specification; characters drawn with such wide strokes that they are cartoons, speaking in running clichés, characters from the movie "Against all Odds", setting from the movie "10". Throw in some errant Shakespeare quotations and a reference to an old Ernest Borgnine movie and you have what critics call "richly literate".By page 140 you are convinced that the book is a common stinker; but maybe Stone can pull it off in the last third. Don't waste your time. Its a failure in all aspects.Don't put this book on the shelf, put it under your dog dish.P.S. typo on page 207.
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