The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan.
Even Kitty Kelly will blush.nnSoaked, nay, marinated in
the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset
Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis
and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s
syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to
the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman’s
habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy
cheering from the beyond.nnOur Thelma Ritter–ish narrator
is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized
needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton—veteran of multiple
marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But
danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton
Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart
(and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already
written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss
Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned
musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must
execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for
posterity.nnTell-All is funny, subversive, and
fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s
bold-faced—it’s vintage Chuck.
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