The Hollywood Fix
Published on 2. December 2025
400 pages
979-8-89565-285-5 (ISBN)
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The dirty business of keeping the stars shiny and clean.
During Hollywood's Golden Age, a destitute young man, Bartie Maddox, journeys to Los Angeles and, through his wits, hard work, and talent, becomes the PR fixer to the most important film studio and its studio chief, Solomon Myers. Through his experienced lens, Bartie influences the lives and creation of some of the world's greatest stars: Duke Drake, Carroll Madison, Mirielle Montaigne, and the heiress, Grace Greystone, La Marquise de Faucigny, exposing how their images are created, managed, and intersect through the Great War and glamor of Tinseltown.
This masterful and sweeping novel is based on true stories from the studio system era and PR machines which have not only created legends but exposed the dirty business of keeping the stars shiny and clean. Bartie's intricate fixes involve endless scandals of money, sex, captivating personas and even the cover-up of death. But in the end, Bartie's own studio fix becomes the greatest fix of all.
During Hollywood's Golden Age, a destitute young man, Bartie Maddox, journeys to Los Angeles and, through his wits, hard work, and talent, becomes the PR fixer to the most important film studio and its studio chief, Solomon Myers. Through his experienced lens, Bartie influences the lives and creation of some of the world's greatest stars: Duke Drake, Carroll Madison, Mirielle Montaigne, and the heiress, Grace Greystone, La Marquise de Faucigny, exposing how their images are created, managed, and intersect through the Great War and glamor of Tinseltown.
This masterful and sweeping novel is based on true stories from the studio system era and PR machines which have not only created legends but exposed the dirty business of keeping the stars shiny and clean. Bartie's intricate fixes involve endless scandals of money, sex, captivating personas and even the cover-up of death. But in the end, Bartie's own studio fix becomes the greatest fix of all.
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Richard Kirshenbaum is the author of three #1 Amazon Bestsellers: Isn't that Rich, Rouge, and North Bay Road. An accomplished entrepreneur and author, he has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame and has written comedy for the legendary Joan Rivers and Us Weekly's Fashion Police. After selling his eponymous agency Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, he became the CEO of SWAT by Kirshenbaum, a boutique branding and marketing firm. Kirshenbaum has appeared on ABC's 20/20, the cover of WIRED magazine, and The New York Times Business section and has also been profiled in The Wall Street Journal. Voted one of the "25 Most Stylish New Yorkers!" by Us Weekly, he resides in Manhattan with his wife Dana, a former Hollywood publicist and real estate agent, and their three children.
