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"Tell-All" is a lot of things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama filled with big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of of Lillian Hellman's behavior of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton, a superstar of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the mental torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple relationships, profession comebacks and plastic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives just how legends should. But threat lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III gets there and worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and soul and boudoir. Hazie discovers that bounder has recently written his movie star tell-all memoir and that it foretells her loss of life in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World Conflict II musical extravaganza "Unconditional Surrender", in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body matter mounts, Hazie must do a plan to save lots of Katherine Kenton on her behalf fans - and for posterity. A dark reimagining of "All About Eve" and an entertaining assault on movie star, "Tell-All" is vintage "Palahniuk".
