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基本信息·出版社：St. Martin's Griffin
·页码：231 页
·出版日期：2007年02月
·ISBN：0312358288
·International Standard Book Number：0312358288
·条形码：9780312358280
·EAN：9780312358280
·版本：1st
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 All right, so she blew it! The last time she was in front of the camera, she acted like a total diva and ended up losing the gig. But now the new and improved Vivien Leigh Reid is back in L.A. and determined to make it right. While helping her mother plan for her wedding, Leigh unexpectedly lands a featured role in a new television series, and this time she is going to keep her inner diva in control.
It may not be easy as she hoped, though. The all-male cast of
Freak Force, an action-adventure series about superhumanoids, isn't exactly thrilled to have a girl on board. Add that to the demands of her mother, who is quickly turning into Bridezilla, and a wicked soon-to-be stepsister, and Leigh's newfound cool may really be put to the test.
作者简介 Yvonne Collins and
Sandy Rideout are the coauthurs of seven books, including
Totally Me: The Teenage Girl's Survival Guide,
Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva, and
Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid: Diva in Training. Both authors live in Toronto.
媒体推荐 "In the third book about Leigh's life as an up-and-coming actress (following
Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid and
Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid), we find her determined to ditch her reputation as a diva. She is in Los Angeles visiting her mother, a B-list actress with A-list aspirations, when she unexpectedly is offered a starring role in
Freak Force, a new action-adventure television show about college students whose DNA has merged with animal DNA. Leigh reluctantly signs on, certain she has only been offered the part as a bribe. The producer, Jake, has just gotten engaged to her mother and is hoping to win Leigh over. Once the show begins filming, Leigh realizes it may not be easy to stay calm and centered. She discovers her character, the unfortunately named Effluvia, is a hideous warthog. If that's not enough, both the director and her all-male costars seem to have it in for her. Meanwhile, at home, her wicked stepsisters-to-be do their best to break her spirit and her mother becomes obsessed with her upcoming wedding. Leigh tries to keep her calm, but will all of the stress unleash her repressed diva? Leigh is a likeable, funny, and realistic heroine . . . Leigh's life as a burgeoning young star has a wide appeal thanks to her down-to-earth outlook and her witty personality."—
KLIATT "Vivien Leigh Reid's first forays into acting, detailed in
Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva (2005) and
Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid: Diva in Training (2006, both Griffin), ended in disaster as her starring role on a TV show led to a big head and her eventual dismissal. Now that her actress-mother is engaged to a producer, Leigh has been offered a role in his new TV show,
Freak Force. Eager to prove that she can avoid the diva syndrome, she jumps at the chance to reform her reputation. The role turns out to be more challenging than she expected: she is a humanoid, part female college freshman and part warthog, and doing her own stunts is complicated by an unwieldy costume. Her relationships are complicated, too: her male costars don't want to work with her, her evil future stepsisters are determined to make her life miserable, and her mother is planning a wedding. To complicate things further, she falls for one of her costars. Leigh's first-person narrative (including fantasy sequences written in script format) is engaging. Fans of Meg Cabot's "The Princess Diaries" series (HarperCollins) will enjoy the inside look at life among the famous and identify with Leigh's romantic travails. Though it's not necessary for readers to be familiar with the previous volumes, they may be in demand once this one hits the shelves."—
Laurie Slagenwhite, School Library Journal 专业书评 From School Library JournalGrade 7–10—Vivien Leigh Reid's first forays into acting, detailed in
Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva (2005) and
Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid: Diva in Training (2006, both Griffin), ended in disaster as her starring role on a TV show led to a big head and her eventual dismissal. Now that her actress-mother is engaged to a producer, Leigh has been offered a role in his new TV show,
Freak Force. Eager to prove that she can avoid the diva syndrome, she jumps at the chance to reform her reputation. The role turns out to be more challenging than she expected: she is a humanoid, part female college freshman and part warthog, and doing her own stunts is complicated by an unwieldy costume. Her relationships are complicated, too: her male costars don't want to work with her, her evil future stepsisters are determined to make her life miserable, and her mother is planning a wedding. To complicate things further, she falls for one of her costars. Leigh's first-person narrative (including fantasy sequences written in script format) is engaging. Fans of Meg Cabot's "The Princess Diaries" series (HarperCollins) will enjoy the inside look at life among the famous and identify with Leigh's romantic travails. Though it's not necessary for readers to be familiar with the previous volumes, they may be in demand once this one hits the shelves.—
Laurie Slagenwhite, Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
文摘 Chapter One I scan the crowd around the arrivals gate for one of my mother’s conspicuous disguises. With her vast collection of wigs, hats, scarves, and sunglasses, the possibilities are nearly endless but something always blows her cover. Mom isn’t an inept CIA operative; she’s an actress, and the disguises are meant to keep her fans at bay. As far as I can tell, the Annika Anderson filmography takes care of that on its own. She has made over twenty films, most of which are simply forgettable, but a few—the ones my Dad likes to watch again and again—are downright awful. So bad, in fact, that Annika was stuck in the B-movie category for years. All that changed three months ago with the release of Danny Boy, an A-list movie that has garnered great reviews. Even so, the odds of her being mobbed are pretty remote, especially in Los Angeles, where everyone’s a star. A hand rises from a nearby knot of people and snaps fingers in my general direction. Unless Mom has shrunk, or less likely still, opted for flats, the hand can’t be hers. “Annika?” I call uncertainly. “Don’t ever call me that,” the owner of the hand says, folding every finger but one. The knot of people parts to reveal Sasha Cohen, my former costar on a soap opera called Diamond Heights. As always, she is dressed in white from head to toe. Even the tiny dog under her arm is wearing a white scarf. As the throng of admirers closes around her again, she says, “Get over here. I can’t wait all day.” “Nice to see you too,” I grumble, nudging her fans aside. “What are you doing here, anyway?” She signs another autograph without looking up. “Daddy made me come.”……
