Reading: You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again
I have such shameful, guilty pleasures. I'm not proud of them, but I do have them and I surrender to them frequently. I LONG for Friday afternoons when I can purchase the new US Weekly and quickly turn to the "Stars: They're Just Like Us" section to see Reese Witherspoon spoon Splenda into her Tall Extra Hot Triple Shot Half-Caff Vanilla Soy Latte. I TIVO "The Real Housewives of Orange County". I j'adore America's Next Top Model.
Which is why I picked up "You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny" last week when it was cold and rainy and I had the flu and I needed some celebrity scandal to keep me warm.
First off, this book is DISHY and I read it in about 8 hours. And I'm not going to lie when I say I enjoyed every single page of it. The author, Suzanne Hansen, graduated from Nanny University in The Middle of Nowhere, Oregon before landing a job as a live-in Nanny to Michael Ovitz, agent to stars such as Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise.
Hansen pulls no punches describing the year she spend in the Ovitz' household. Case in point: Mrs. Ovitz apparently had no desire or ability to care for her 7-month old infant and Hansen was responsible for morning, noon and midnight feedings for the baby. Mr. Ovitz called from a trip overseas and instead of asking about his children, repeatedly inquired about his art. Mrs. Ovitz spent thousands of dollars on manicures but refused to replace an iron which was a fire hazard to her housecleaning staff.
I won't go into much detail about the plot of the book because you get this gist: Hansen works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She quits. Ovitz gets pissed and blackballs her in the Hollywood nanny community. She ends up getting a job with Debra Winger, who refuses to be intimidated by Ovitz.
I won't lie to you: This book is great dish, but it is by no means well-written. It is also very dated; Hansen worked in Hollywood in the late 80s and is now a mother herself in Oregon. What I think bothers me the most about this book Suzanne dredged up gossip that is almost 20 years and she never provided any grand insight about Hollywood and power, or delivered any kind of message about parenting methodology.
But, it is flu season, and if you have 8 hours to kill ... this book will deliver.
posted by kirsten02 @ 9:26 AM
3 Comments:
Ah. I'm so glad you gave me this book. I'll have to wait for a lazy Sunday afternoon and read it all.
My guilty pleasure is "Real Housewives of Orange County" tooooo! Oh we have so much to tawk about. RR
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