For Immediate Release : New: Hollywood Story ‘Still Here,’ Charms Movie Buffs -- “Nobody is deader in Hollywood than an aging blonde…”

For Immediate Release : New: Hollywood Story ‘Still Here,’?Charms Movie Buffs -- “Nobody is deader in Hollywood than an aging blonde…”?

Los Angeles, CA, April 30

?– With interest in old Hollywood stirred up by films such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Babylon, La La Land and the Netflix series, Hollywood, a new behind-the-scenes story of the movies has just debuted enchanting readers.

Still Here: The Memoirs of a Hollywood Legend is an Academy Award-winning actress reflecting on her life and career as half-sister to Marilyn Monroe as she seeks equality in a Hollywood run by men. While Babe is fictional, her stories are true—coming of age, the studio system, film financing, the women’s movement, AIDS, and Broadway. It is the story of a talented woman who earned the right to sing Sondheim’s Still Here. On his deathbed, her father tells her that she was half-sister to Marilyn Monroe, which starts her on her road to Broadway to tell her life story.

?“Just before my father died, he managed to shock me more deeply than anyone, which in Hollywood says a lot. He told me my good friend, Marilyn Monroe, had been my half-sister. Twenty years after her death, he decided to reveal this to me. The idea we had been blood relatives and never knew distressed me more than I can say. In front of the camera, she was better than I ever was. Yet I had the financial success and happiness she never did. I survived and, in the end, beat the system. Why, we’ll never know. Einstein famously said that God doesn’t play dice with the universe. However, he manages to do so with our lives.

Babe is one of those great literary characters who stay with us after a wonderful read. As one reader commented, “This is the autobiography that Norma Desmond might have written if she had a brain.”

Author Stephen Eliot explains, “Writing is rewriting and with each rewrite, Babe emerged with a stronger presence – she almost wrote herself. I never wondered what she might do – I just knew what she would do.” In the beginning, it was difficult for me to voice a woman and I worried that I might not be able to do it justice. However, as Babe kept emerging, what she did and what she said rang true. I miss her now that I have finished. I didn’t want to say goodbye.”

Mr. Eliot, who attended Yale and received an MBA from Columbia University, has worked on Wall Street as a senior executive for the last 25 years focusing on both consumer products and agro-bio to help feed the world. He is also the author of Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School, the acclaimed memoir of a boy that was published in the US and France. He says that while it may seem unusual to be both a financial executive focusing on spreadsheets and a writer creating characters, what makes him good in finance is that he concentrates on the story behind the numbers – because while finance is often not well understood, everyone understands stories and all numbers tell a story if you know how to find it. “Maybe it’s not so strange for me to do both.”

His prior book received the following rave reviews:

“Exceptional … Eliot recounts his story with lucidity and devastating humor.” Elle magazine (France)

“The most detailed, moving, and persuasive account I have encountered about life at the school. It is also a completely believable and very touching account of the struggle of an intelligent yet seriously disturbed boy to conquer his problems and emerge into a full adult life …” Robert Gottlieb, New York Review of Books

“The child who thought of himself as merely a pulsating brain invites us on a voyage back from the frontier of insanity. We return transformed.” Marianne magazine (France)

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