All That Glitters

Description for ALL THAT GLITTERS by Thomas Tryon: Like his best-selling CROWNED HEADS, this dazzling new book by Thomas Tryon brings together a group of brilliant novellas about Hollywood's great and near-great---characters whose real lives vie with their screen images in glamour, drama, and fascination. Here are five actresses who have in common the legendary agent (and lover) Frankie Adano, actresses whose lives come to stand for exalted success and desperate failure, for excess and illusion, for all the rituals of royal Hollywood: BABE---the outrageous honky-tonk blonde whom Frankie discovers in a third-rate Broadway show and turns into the toast to two continents. Other stars come and go, tastes change, movies give way to TV, but Babe is eternal... BELINDA---she went from an adorable kid star to a very gown-up sex goddess: a legend living out her life in newspaper headlines of scandal and disaster; a woman whom everybody loves---in one way or another... APRIL---the