Tortured Soles: High Heels, Low Expectations and the Hollywood Gossip Mill

Told with sharp humor and unflinching honesty, Fran Weinstein's memoir traces one woman's journey from dutiful immigrant daughter to seasoned entertainment news reporter who reckons with the price of ambition-and finally chooses a life grounded not in Hollywood glitz, but in grace.

The daughter of Polish immigrants who fled Nazi Germany, Fran Weinstein grew up in the post World War II Bronx. Though she was expected to follow a conventional and exclusive path to homemaking at an early age, sh...