Dumb Stunt with Celebrity Look-Alike Doll Backfires--Boy Fails Upward

    /24-7PressRelease/ - SANTA MONICA, CA, May 14, 2007 - Beverly Hills car jockey Rollo Hemphill thought he'd make his girlfriend jealous by driving a life-sized sex doll around Hollywood in a borrowed Bentley convertible. He'd dolled the doll up to look like a certain star who wouldn't be caught dead in public without her oversized red wig and trademark heart-shaped sunglasses.

Hey, from a hundred feet away, who would know the difference? Certainly not the tabloids. They prefer perception to plain truth any day.

So it all backfired on hapless young Hemphill when the real star, confronted by the gossip mongers, admitted that he was her new boy-toy. Apparently, she has plenty to hide, and throwing the paparazzi off the track suits her just fine, even if it throws her in bed (only figuratively speaking) with a doofus. But she soon fixed that by setting him up with a job a as shock-jock deejay, a new wardrobe from Armani, and a shiny red Turbo Carrera. Chump-change was the cost of this ploy, but the payoff is a blank check for her to enjoy delicious privacy while her new employee drives his rubber girlfriend to every celebrity watering hole in town.

Okay, it didn't happen, but it could. If life imitates art, Hollywood publicists should be worried lest pseudo-celebrities start showing up in all kinds of unauthorized places. This silly-scary plot is disclosed in painfully funny detail in My Inflatable Friend (softcover LaPuerta $15.99), the new comic novel by Gerald Everett Jones. Humorist and Hollywood commentator Peter Lefcourt (The Deal: A Novel of Hollywood) warns the book is "... fast, funny and sufficiently out there to be banned in Pasadena. Will do great things for the rubber sex toy industry."

As Jones explains it, "This is a cautionary tale about the hazards of stroking every male's most private and vulnerable part—his swelling ego." He's calling My Inflatable Friend an example of boychik lit, an emerging genre of male-centered comic fiction (the New York Times calls it fratire, or fraternity satire). Book details can be found on the LaPuerta website http://www.lapuerta.tv, and the fan blog http://www.boychiklit.com.

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