Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity

By Mark Ebner and Andrew Breitbart

Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities.

Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves.

Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Mar 15, 2004
• ISBN: 9780471661894

Mark Ebner

Mark Ebner is a New York Times bestselling author, and an award-winning investigative journalist.

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Reviews for Hollywood, Interrupted

[voracious_reader_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Hollywood Interrupted by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner was ok. After finishing it, I was certainly frothing at the mouth about "Hollywood lefties," but I didn't find the book terribly memorable. It was a quick, easy read, but it didn't really tell me anything that I didn't already know or suspect. I suppose it did give me some specific information around which to form arguments and it did give me some good websites to visit for related information, like famousidiot.com and so on. I have a number of the websites tabbed under favorites on my computer. I'll gladly return the book to my mother who loaned it to me. It was more like a really long magazine article than a book.