"It's the 1950s. Hedda is hopping, James Dean is rebelling, Marlon Brando wants to be a contender, and Bruno Sangenito just wants to be a movie star...." "Fade in. Dissolve to. Close up. Twenty-four-year-old Bruno Sangenito thinks like a movie. Now if he could only act in one before his life turns into a big fat dose of reality. But breaking into show biz in 1957 Hollywood - where everyone has a client and a studio and a hairstyle - isn't as easy as the dream Bruno spun back home in Granville, California." "Yet with blind persistence and frequent fantasy visits from Burt Lancaster, Bruno both perfects the art of ice cream scooping and manages to find an agent. Fast-talking Stanley Feinberg eventually dubs him Bruno Adams. No, Adam Bruno. Bruno something, something Bruno. Larry, Harry, Barry, Jimmy, Johnny...Johnny Bruno!" "Now that he's got the name, will a star be born?" "Once again Paul Mantee, acclaimed author of In Search of the Perfect Ravioli, has written a story full of genuine warmth and wit, as he traces the life of a marvelously naive, hopelessly romantic young man stumbling his way through a town that has nothing to do with logic, and everything to do with luck...."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved