Hot Pants in Hollywood is fascinating -- for one thing, because it provides insight into what it takes to get a job on a hit sitcom and into how classic TV moments are created -- but also because it provides just as much depth, alternately funny and heartbreaking, into its author Susan Silver's life and career through the tumultuous decades of the '50s, '60s and straight through to today. Everyone knows that Hollywood is a rough place to survive in, but Silver's story brings us her fresh female perspective on those years and those iconic shows. I couldn't put this book down, both because I'm a fan of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Square Pegs" and many of the other shows for which Silver has written, and also because it's so honest, beautifully written, and in its depiction of the deaths of her aging parents, familiar and cathartic. I loved and highly recommend this book!
