Book Signing: Lisa Rinna & Harry Hamlin December 1, 2010

Borders in Sherman Oaks is pleased to welcome beloved actors Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin.

Lisa and Harry will be discussing and signing their new books, a novel from Lisa titled "Starlit" and a biography from Harry titled "Full Frontal Nudity: The Making of an Accidental Actor."

Coincidentally, on December 1st, World AIDS Day, Borders is partnering with Lifebeat to support HIV prevention. Print your voucher and bring it to the store. When you purchase Harry or Lisa's book (or ANY item in the store), 25% of your purchase will go to Lifebeat to support their programs.

Learn more here: http://lifebeat.org/borders/

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:::::::::::::About Lisa's book, "Starlit":::::::::::::

In this town, you're either it or you're out.

Glamorous parties, flashing lights, red carpets—Tally Jones has worked hard to join Hollywood's A-list since she moved to Los Angeles. She finally gets her break on the hit nighttime soap opera Dana Point, with a coveted role that allows the former small-town girl to trade her crisp waiter uniform for a breathtaking ball gown, a career as a glittering starlet, and a red-hot arm charm: chiseled hunk Gabriel McNamara, the king of prime-time medical drama.

Ratings have skyrocketed since Tally replaced veteran diva Susie Sheppard on the show, and her performance earned her an Emmy nomination. But celebrity has its dark side, too. Tally's financial adviser makes off with her savings, and Gabriel's kinky sexploits and paparazzi baiting have Tally wondering why there isn't a better leading man in her life.

There is: the successful film producer Mac Carlton, who has been in love with her from the moment he set eyes on her. With Mac at her side, Tally is living the Hollywood dream—until Susie arranges for her character to make a comeback, then schemes to oust her popular costar from the limelight. Upon learning of Tally and Mac's engagement, Susie sharpens her claws to snag Mac. She's out to ruin Tally's life completely. But Tally won't go down without a fight. She's determined to bring down her on- and off-screen nemesis and claim the sparkling happy ending she deserves.

Beloved actress, television personality, and New York Times bestselling author of Rinnavation, Lisa Rinna delivers a deliciously revealing roman À clef about life on and off the red carpet. Filled with colorful characters, Hollywood insider details, scandalous backstabbing, and more than a few scenes—and villains—from Lisa's real life, Starlit combines the fun of Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, and Us Weekly into one titillating Hollywood drama.

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:::::::::::::About Harry's biography, "Full Frontal Nudity: The Making of an Accidental Actor":::::::::::::

In 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a television series, Harry Hamlin—the former star of L.A. Law and once People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive—was detained at the border for unresolved narcotics convictions. And so begins Full Frontal Nudity, a laugh-out-loud-funny memoir in which Harry digs deep into his past to recount the wacky experiences of his childhood, the twisted path that led to his alleged criminal behavior, and the series of fortuitous mishaps that drove him to become an actor.

Harry was reared in suburban California in the late 1950s by a gin-gulping, pill-popping housewife mother and a rocket scientist father with a secret life. On its surface, his childhood was not unlike his peers', except that he was kicked out of the fourth grade for writing a book report on Mein Kampf and, when he was eleven, his parents gave him a subscription to Playboy for Christmas. Curious by nature, chock-full of boyish charm and good looks, Harry experimented with mystical religion and set off for Woodstock, only to narrowly avoid lighting the whole of Yellowstone National Park on fire. At eighteen, he was ready to matriculate at Berkeley and become the architect he always wanted to be. But fate—this time in the form of a large Hells Angel, a few purple microdots, and an evening in the tree houses of La Honda—got in the way.

Sharp and bawdy, Full Frontal Nudity spans the years from Harry's childhood through his time at Berkeley (which he was asked to leave after he was accused of running a brothel), to Yale, then on an extended vacation in the YucatÁn, and finally to the American Conservatory Theater, where Harry played his first lead role—as the buck-naked star of Equus.

Full Frontal Nudity is an uproarious memoir that captures an era and describes the unlikely origins of a star.

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