[3] He says he began writing Tinsel on April Fools' Day 1978 and finished it five months later.

[4] Goldman said in a 1979 interview that he was motivated to write the novel to explore the treatment of women in Hollywood: There are a couple of basic truths about this town.

John Travolta was the hottest thing ever-ever; only Dustin Hoffman after The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy was comparable.

"It's about five people in a town and how their lives develop and interact, and it's fairly long for me, longer than novels I've been doing lately.

"[6] Larry McMurtry, reviewing the book for the New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Goldman never gets beneath the stereotypes ...