Maps to the Stars. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Dead Stars
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Dead Stars
Bruce Wagner, 2012
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David Cronenberg, 2014

A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son, a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver who is also an aspiring actor.