Frédéric Beigbeder: "From Fort Boyard to Château Marmont"

Olivier Minne is a smiling guy with big biceps. Usually, we see it on France 2 in a strong Charentais, chased by dwarfs, spiders and father Fouras. It is difficult to admit that this animator in tight shorts is also a solid writer, biographer of Louis Jourdan and author of a first novel ideally adjusted to cross the summer.

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In A Castle for Hollywood, he puts himself in the shoes of an old Californian actress on the way back. Recycling the flashback structure of Sunset Boulevard, he imagines a Paramount star who has become the director of Château Marmont, Abigail Fairchild, who recalls his memories in 1958 after meeting with a pushy vagabond. The reading is fast, the chapters short and the anecdotes crisp. We expect a popularized novel work, we come across the good surprise of the moment. Significantly more digestible and just as dirty as a bitch as the two volumes of Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger, M. Minne leaves

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