Honest Review – Where’s My F*cking Latte? (and Other Stories About Being an Assistant in Hollywood)

September 13th, 2011 Filed under: pr careers — Public Relations Author

The Kindle Bestselling book featured on TV’s “ACCESS HOLLYWOOD”

*UPDATED FOR 2011 WITH 3 NEW BONUS STORIES!*

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS… Every movie and TV star has one. So does every agent and manager. Some producers and studio execs have two or even three. I’m talking about an assistant. Someone to answer your phones, pick up your dry cleaning. Someone to hide your drugs. Your assistant knows what you eat, who you’re sleeping with and what medications you’re taking. They listen in on your phone calls. They are the eyes and ears of Hollywood… and occasionally they talk. Culled from dozens of interviews with former and current Hollywood assistants, Where’s My F*cking Latte is a no-holds barred insider’s look at what really goes on behind Tinseltown’s closed doors.

PRAISE FOR “WHERE’S MY F*CKING LATTE?”
“I can tell you firsthand that what goes on behind-the-scenes of Hollywood’s glittering facade is usually shocking, insane and full of sex offers. Where’s My F*cking Latte perfectly captures the abusive and often hysterically unbelievable world of celebs and Tinseltown power-brokers and the culture of excess and entitlement they live in. Two thumbs WAY, WAY UP!”
- Daniella Cracknell, Publicist to many of TVs iconic stars from Dick Clark, Howie Mandel, Geraldo Rivera, Mario Lopez to name a few

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff made a living writing music for television before opportunity knocked and transformed him into a screen/TV writer and later an award-winning and bestselling author featured on Access Hollywood. A podcast he recorded in his car turned into a drive-time radio show on Sirius five nights a week. This led to a handsome feature in Playboy Magazine that compared Mark to Howard Stern and Jon Stewart.Mark later created an Internet video series that led to him being cast as the on-screen host of TVs The MoShow, a nationally syndicated newsmagazine about smartphones and mobile entertainment.

Mark’s most recent book is the bestseller, The Killing of Osama Bin Laden: How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished.

Review:

I fell in love with Nemcoff’s work when I started listening to “Number 1 with a bullet”. So of course, I had to pick this book up. Not only because it is Nemcoff, but because I am a film student. Talk about eye opening! I have never laughed so hard before in my life- even with learning how weird Hollywood is. Nemcoff TOTALLY sheds light on the weirdest of the weird in this book with stories from a well known Celebrity getting drunk and beaten up in Mexico to the torrid toddler causing havoc in a office, and of course the director falling “in love” with one of his assiatants. The only downfall (if I could say there is one) is that, of course, the book does not name names…however it is fun to try guessing who the indivual stories refer too!

I’ve said before that I think Nemcoff is this generation’s Frank Miller and this book proves it- that is if Miller was writing about Hollywood with no death.

Fan’s of Brian Michael Bendis’ book “Fortune and Glory” will totally get a kick out of this. Heck, ANYONE that is even thinking of working in this industry should pick this up. It should be required reading for all film students.

WARNING: do not drink/eat anything while reading this- you might choke because you are laughing to much (or dumbfounded/shocked by some of the stupidity displayed) that… and of course you wouldn’t want to ruin your book.

Only question I got, is when are we going to see the sequal?