Hollywood Education

David Freeman, IRA M. Freeman. Laurel Press, $6.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-53738-0

This collection of short stories is narrated by a former journalist who, we learn in the first entry, was advised to go to Tinseltown to test his fictionalizing talents. PW called these ""fond, funny and touching stories that expose the human being behind every Hollywood stereotype.'' (August)

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