Collateral Stardust : Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things

WARREN BEATTY WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR... In this offbeat memoir, Nikki Nash tells the story of an obsession that starts with a young girl’s movie-star fantasy.At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki fixates on superstar Warren Beatty.She’s determined to find him and have him in her life forever.She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of eighteen when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents.A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst—dirty hair pulled back, no make-up, broken finger in a glass of ice—Warren Beatty walks through the door and her plan comes to fruition.In this entertaining and genuine account of the inner workings of Hollywood, Nash pursues a vibrant career as a TV associate director, comic, writer, and actress.Her celebrity-infused journey is also a dance with drugs, religion, Hollywood culture, and other volatile mysteries in the city of angels, including her own metamorphosis.