Impossibly Tongue-Tied

Impossibly Hard to Put Down

Ms. Brown strikes Hollywood Gold again with Impossibly Tongue Tied. Just as in True Hollywood Lies, Ms. Brown gives us almost recognizable stars from the Hollywood scene and lets us play in the glittery playground of the rich and infamous. Nathan Harte, an up and coming actor and his loyal wife, Nina are thrown head first into this shark pit. Nina, naive but not stupid, survives quite well as she gives as good as she gets in a tawdry mix of infidelity and divorce proceedings from hell. Like a true heroine, she rises above it all and wins in the end. Yeah Nina!! A real heroine to cheer for.

Compelling

Nina and Nathan Harte moved to Los Angeles so that he can find work as an actor. To help them achieve their goal, Nina works two jobs as a phone sex operator and as a clerk at a grocery store with her spouse¿s understanding and agreement.----------------- Nina meets agent Sam Godwin who is attracted to her. He takes Nathan¿s demo and gives it to married director Hugo. As Nathan begins to make it in Hollywood he dumps Nina for a man-eating popular actress and then sues her for custody of their young son based on her unfitness to be a mother because of her phone sex employment job.--------------------- This is a fascinating look at Hollywood relationships though five degrees of Bacon seem more like one degree as everyone is interconnected for instance Hugo¿s wife thinks he is having an affair, while he is actually having telephone sex with Nina, etc. The key cast members seem real especially the star Nina who believes in Nathan until he betrays her twice with the affair and with the custody suit. The rest of the prime players add understanding of how Nina, Nathan, and Sam think. In spite of it¿s a small world concept, IMPOSSIBLY TONGUE TIED is an interesting work of contemporary fiction that readers of Jackie Collins fans will enjoy.-------------- Harriet Klausner

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