Hollywood Graffiti

HOLLYWOODDecadent, fast-paced, unforgiving, a fairy tale city where dreams begin and nightmares never end. In Hollywood, every closet has a skeleton and every saint is a sinner. One elite group held the key to the city's most closely guarded secrets, and one word from them could send even the brightest star spiraling into the abyss THE IMAGEMAKERSThey were public relations geniuses, men and women who could make gold from straw-and turn it back again if they wanted to. At the peak of it all was Arthur Gregory, a p.r. boy-wonder with dazzling good looks and charm to match. He was king in a land held in thrall by sex and drugs, and his subjects were an equally impressive and tragic assortment of hopefuls and has-beens. Arthur Gregory was a man on top of the world-but the love of a woman would be his ultimate downfall. "Sederberg understands people and how to write about them Good novels often tell me more than nonfiction does about the intracies of such complex subjects Sederberg's book gives that kind of insight in the machinations of business and their impact on people and nations."-The Washington PostArelo Sederberg is a veteran newspaper editor and reporter, with experience on metropolitan papers in Los Angeles and New York. For two years he was an interviewer and daily commentator, as well as managing editor, of the Financial News Network, now C-NBC. He is the author of seven published books, six of them novels. For eight years, 1969-1978, he was a public relations executive for Howard Hughes, serving as sole press spokesman when the reclusive billionaire died in 1976.