The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is
a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and
Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-
tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up
of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary
McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Our Thelma Ritter-ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended
to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton - veteran of multiple
marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with
gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss
Kathie's heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already
written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in
a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza; as the body count
mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans - and
for posterity.
Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It's wild, it's
wicked, it's bold-faced - it's vintage Chuck.
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