Big Dreams and Even-Bigger Disappointments... That's Showbiz, Folks! (Lost in Crazytown REVIEW)
Los Angeles, California--What People (who don’t live there) Think It Is : Endless sun, beaches, surfing, skateboarding, movie and TV stars, glamourous shopping meccas, ostentatious wealth, kooks, vineyards, pot, egos, traffic jams, earthquakes, and big dreams. Los Angeles, California--What It Really Is : All of the above… plus dust, smog, pedestrians, industry folks moonlighting in a lot of inglorious jobs (because otherwise they don't eat), ratty apartments, tons of ordinary folk, fabulous diversity of foods, loneliness, and unfulfilled dreams. Prior to making the Golden State my home, I probably wouldn’t have come up with everything on the second list; you can’t really know a place unless you spend some time there… as author Robert Bryndza (writing with husband Jan Bryndza, this time) clearly did, going by the tale told in Lost in Crazytown . _______________ Lost in Crazytown centers around Filip--a guy (and story) not unfamiliar in Hollywood: transplanted from so...