If you're talking to me your career must be in trouble - Joe Queenan

Joe Queenan's hilarious essays for Rolling Stone and Movieline have made him persona non grata among stars and studio executives, so that when he sent out seventy-five letters to actors and actresses requesting interviews only two responded: publicists for Liza Minnelli and Raul Julia said no. This self-proclaimed 'mean-spirited turnip' has sent the denizens of Tinseltown reeling with such classics as 'Sacred Cow' (about Barbra Streisand), 'The Dark Side of the Moon' (an avid appreciation of Melanie Griffith's endowments), and 'Mickey Rourke for a Day' (in which Queenan impersonates the well-known bad boy by smoking eighty-two Marlboros and degrading women on the streets of New York).

'Joe Queenan deflates preposterous egos; he trashes Hollywood's institutions with a withering scorn, half Calvinist, half nihilist. He's outrageously funny. He's the pit-bull I'd most like to see unleashed on the Clinton era' James Ellroy, author of White Jazz and L.A. Confidential

'One of the most devastatingly funny books ever written about the film business' Stephen Amidon, Esquire

'Very probably the funniest writer in the world' Julie Burchill, Spectator