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My phone was filled with texts from everyone I kneith the exception of the Brit I very much wanted to hear from Holly let me know in no less than fourteen texts that every reviewer she orried about was raving, and that I was the talk of the town today She also letover

Michael let me know in only four texts that he had already heard fro about ideas he had for the next season--the next season? Hadn’t been officially picked up, but the fact that the executives were already wondering what he

Lane texted ht with ht, but that he’d recorded it, watched it later, and loved it And to tell Jack to call hilass he’d lay his that liked s that hated me for my connection to Jack were rabid in their continued hatred But the headline that ht my eye was from CelebWatch, an online site known for their topical discussions about Hollywood and the standard of beauty

If Grace Sheridan Is Plus-size, Hollywood Needs a New Scale

The article went on to not only praise the show and the entire cast but also call out every other website that had insinuated theht be Printing a picture of Marilyn Monroe, they reminded their readers that by today’s standards, Marilyn would be plus-size A side-by-side conificantly smaller than she was and yet still billed as a curvy actress I laughed when I saw the side-by-side shot She was and alill be a bombshell

And in thathad beco, small, curvy, or bony, beauty was beauty I was healthy I was exactly the size I was supposed to be, and that was it

Theabout the article? There was noIt was solely about me, my show, and ht be sleeping with

The man I was still very ht, left ht withon with hi my nails as our conversation played back over for the thousandth ti at this point I had analyzed it forward and backward and spent just ashow I could have pushed hi into a Hollywood cliché My experience with drugs was lie plenty, but only with pot And we never bought it There were always guys ould share In fact, the first time I ever smoked pot ith Holly and Michael, on the floor of his sister’s living roohteen boxes of Snackwell’s later, I had successfully inhaled

But that was it for s were around, but I was never aware of it--certainly not clued in enough to recognize it in anyone else However, I are enough to know that occasional use didn’t lead automatically to a pretty place in Malibu with a curfew and required wristbands for visitors

So what had Jack been on yesterday? And was it the first time?

Hi, naive? I think soe for sale?

This explained a lot But I was more concerned that there was a side to Jack I had no clue about, and no clue how to help

The phone rang as I was locked inside s, Holly," I said as

"Did I call a hotline?"

I ss"

She swore into the phone "I’onna kick his ass"

"You’ll have to drive a little farther than Laurel Canyon He left for the desert last night" I sighed

"What? After we left?"

"About fifteenwas playing during our Coels do you want?"

"No bagels, but I wouldn’t say no to egg rolls later"

"Done And can we also talk about how fking huge your shoas last night?"

"I love you"

"I love you too, fruitcake I’ot out of bed, made it, and headed for the shower By the time Holly arrived, I had on a dress, had curledrolls would have been the beginning of a spiral, the way to cope with anything tough that ca rolls would have morphed into pans of fried noodles, fried wontons, fried anything Couple that with my couch, a sloppy ponytail that hadn’t seen shampoo in days, and a marathon of My So-Called Life, and I could turn any crisis into an excuse to cocoon

Drugs? Pfft Egg rolls wererolls with a side of yoga and solve my problems with a clear head And a hit TV show

Holly stayed for the better part of the afternoon, during which I told her everything that happened the night before She kicked herself as well Working in Hollywood as long as she had, she was convinced she should have seen this co the forest for the coine Addict? Probably not That couldn’t have gotten past ressed But while we, of course, spent ti about the Brit, we also talked about the redhead