Hollywood Knives

Hollywood (its movie business) is the perfeet place (setting) for our dishiest fiction, Producer Lynda Obst and screenwriter Carol Wolper, daughter-in-law of TV titan David, have joined forces to write next summer's fun read, Dirty Dreams (New American Library). "It's a tale of two women pursuing their dreams in a town that systematically tries to sully them,'' says Obst. Buffy Shutt, once the president of marketing for Paramount and now the president of marketing at Columbia/Tri-Star, takes a cautionary view of the movie business in next month's Creative Differences (Soho Press). Less a feminist tract than a humanist one, it charts the corporate rise of a female secretary. Shutt: "It's no harder for women to make it in this business; they just may be more attuned to how hard it is for anyone."

K.S.