Pinder, Margaret. But I Don't Want to be A Movie Star.PINDER, Margaret. But I don't want to be a movie star. Penguin, Dutton. 250p. c2006. 0525-47634-2. $15.99. JS The short biographical description of Pinder, a first-time novelist, says she has been an international lawyer in London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and she has taught Greek tragedy at Harvard and Shakespeare at Oxford. Wow! That's impressive. And so is this funny novel featuring 15-year-old Katriona, known as Kat, as she spends a summer with her famous movie star grandmother, who lives in semi-retirement in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. . This grandmother, Noni noni, n See morinda. , is a bit of an alcoholic, a self-centered prima donna surrounded by an entourage The e-mail program included in the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office. Combining the functions of Outlook with scheduling capabilities, Entourage was introduced with Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac, the first release of Office for OS X. of devoted bodyguards, beauty consultants, and housekeepers. Most teenagers would be thrilled to share the luxury and celebrity, but Kat is not. Perhaps it's because the others see her resemblance to Noni--a thought that horrifies her. The story continues toward madness and mayhem mayhem (mā`hĕm, mā`əm), in common law, the crime of willfully injuring a person so as to diminish his or her capacity for self-defense. (sometimes excruciatingly funny) as the staff dream up a scheme for Kat to disguise herself as Noni when Noni sprains her ankle on Kat's skateboard, in order to meet a Hollywood contact interested in bringing Noni out of retirement to star in a new film. With some excellent acting tutorials, brilliant makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces and wardrobe, Kat becomes Noni, in the way an actor takes on a role and convinces an audience. (Hence the title.) All's well that ends well, of course, and YAs will thoroughly enjoy this wittily intelligent romp. (A great cover, by the way.) Claire Rosser, KLIATT |
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