The WELL: inkwell.vue.155: Carol Wolper: Secret Celebrity

#146: Carol Wolper (carol-wolper) Mon 12 Aug 02 13:13

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:13:00 PDT

Amazon.com? Or if you live in Los Angeles, Book Soup on Sunset. Barnes and Noble in Santa Monica. Brentano's in Century City. Tecalote in Santa Barbara. After you read it, I'd love to hear what you think. It seems to inspire a variety of reactions. Which I guess is a good thing. [Read entire topic]

#145: Linda Castellani (castle) Mon 12 Aug 02 12:55

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:55:00 PDT

Okay so you've whetted my appetite!

How do I buy the book? [Read entire topic]

#144: Carol Wolper (carol-wolper) Mon 12 Aug 02 08:21

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:21:00 PDT

I'm just using shoes as an example. Don't we all have things that just clash with our sensibility? Doesn't matter what it is. Could be anything. One of the things that I tried to do with the character of William is show that he understood how easily changeable this whole falling in and out of lust thing can be. I'm not saying he liked it but he got that that's the way it is and if you wanted to call him shallow, he'd understand. By the way, even though he falls out of lust with the girl, at that moment he also acknowledges his appreciation and respect for her as a person. Separate issues. [Read entire topic]

#143: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 12 Aug 02 07:22

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:22:00 PDT

Now I'm wondering how you define bad shoes? As in old & worn? Or cheap? [Read entire topic]

#142: excessively heterosexual (saiyuk) Sun 11 Aug 02 20:46

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:46:00 PDT

Bad SHOES???!!!

Oh, Carol, this could explain SO much!

I'm not even sure what shoes would be bad, and whether mine count.

But you've given me another reminder why I keep myself in one of the other LA universes, one that runs almost parallel to the one in the book and only bumps up against it now and then, leaving a ding on both, though undoubtedly the larger ding is on mine. [Read entire topic]

#141: Carol Wolper (carol-wolper) Sun 11 Aug 02 20:02

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:02:00 PDT

But actually I understand that character's choice. As he explains it - that's his no go zone. There are certain things that can clash with one's sensibility. In a Nick Hornby book it might be someone who listened to Mariah Carey. How many women will say that in their search for a guy, bad shoes is a deal breaker? This all sounds very superficial but I think you've got to distinguish between deleting someone from your potential date list and deleting someone from your friendship list. The male/female dating hook-up is tricky. And you can't fake it. Either you're attracted to someone or you not. And if you do fake it, that's a bigger problem. Don't you think? [Read entire topic]

#140: Linda Castellani (castle) Sun 11 Aug 02 18:20

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:20:00 PDT

Too true. [Read entire topic]

#139: David Gans (tnf) Sun 11 Aug 02 16:23

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:23:00 PDT

I have known a few people who would be lame enough to reject a woman on the basis of a varicose vein or two. Hard to believe,but there are people who are that shallow. [Read entire topic]

#138: Carol Wolper (carol-wolper) Sun 11 Aug 02 15:45

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:45:00 PDT

I live in L.A. (Hollywood) Age is a huge issue here. On this particular playing field, anyway. I'm not saying it's that way all over the city - but in my world it is. And I'm not exaggerating. Of course it's worse with actresses because so many of them get hooked on being lust objects. Watching them trying to deal with losing that attention is not a pretty sight. However, the good news is I know a lot of women over thirty five who are having a much better time than they did in their twenties. More flaws (maybe) but fewer fears. [Read entire topic]

#137: Angus MacDonald (angus) Sun 11 Aug 02 13:17

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:17:00 PDT

One of my orthodontists died playing basketball. A theme in the book that kept whapping me was the characters' fear of aging. I'm forty-three and a half, so each time Christine freaked out about being thirty-five was a jolt. Jennifer and PsG seemed even more hung up on it, despite being a dozen years younger, and then William told the reader he was unable to consider being with a woman who had a varicosity on her leg. I've always known that age acceptance is a gender issue, and read about it being amped up some in show business, but were you exaggerating much for satire there or is that stuff just reporting? [Read entire topic]