Ep. 95 Fame And Fortune

"Move over Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins... JUICY!" - Booklist
Cupid's arrow has struck the Pink Smoke on St. Valentine's Day, and
they've decided to give some love to that most disrespected of
genre fictions: the romance novel. Recruiting beach-read paperback
enthusiast Melanie Daniels from the Cinema Parlor Podcast, hosts
John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg access the world of
glamorous women and their lusty affairs with truculent suitors via
Fame & Fortune by Kate Coscarelli. Known to cinephiles as
author of the Phantasm novelization (and mother of Phantasm
writer-director Don Coscarelli), Kate produced six salacious books
dealing with the steamy lives of rich widows, lonely housewives,
ambitious businesswomen and rising starlets struggling to stay on
top in the cutthroat upper class society of Los Angeles. Fame &
Fortune deals with the circle of friends of one Peach Malone,
super-wealthy widow of Drake "Midas" Malone trying to regain
control of her estate following the death of her Prince Charming.
Her friends include Grace Gable, a hairdressing entrepreneur
harboring a dark secret; Maggie Hammond, blossoming interior
designer with two smoky beacons for eyes like a Keane painting;
Laura Austin, frail wife of an in-demand doctor whose own eyes have
shifted to Hollywood's hottest sex symbol Ghilly Jordan; and
Belinda Cornwall, the absolute doyenne of Los Angeles society - the
lady with the whim of iron! Coscarelli juggles this large cast of
characters as they struggle to wrest back dominance of their own
lives by outsmarting, upstaging and maybe even murdering the
gorgeous brutes who stand in their way. The Pink Smoke site:
www.thepinksmoke.com Melanie Daniels on Twitter:
twitter.com/plasticwerewolf The Pink Smoke on Twitter:
twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter:
twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter:
twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"