'Play It As It Lays' ranks No. 1 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it speaks to today's Tinseltown as much as it did Didion's.
Maria Wyeth came to Hollywood for the same reason as the rest of us: to escape from someplace else. When we meet her in 'Play It As It Lays,' though, the actor's hometown of Silver Wells, since swallowed by a missile range in the Nevada desert, has regained a certain appeal, 'the restorative power of desolation.' After all, her parents are dead, her marriage is disintegrating, her child is institutionalized, her career is in free fall.
On the down slope of near-fame, Maria must confront the fact that it's not her own name, but those of the men in her orbit, that can open doors, fix problems, carry weight. “Just hold on,“ snipes a young actor with whom she has a run-in, feeling that weight bear down on him. “You never told me who you were.
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