‘CLIMBING IN HEELS’ is your Summer Beach Read

Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas has Spent decades in the background of Hollywood as an agent and product, Working with Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Julia Roberts. But not even for Form Boss Once Told HER, “Background People keep the seconds. They know all.” AFTER YEARS BIBIND The Scenes, Goldsmith-Thomas Finally Picked Up A Pen to Write Her Own Story. Her novel, CLIMBING IN HEELSFollows Three Women Trying to Thrive in Hollywood in the 1980s, Which Goldsmith-Thomas Reference to As The “Wild West.”

The fictional Tale Follows Beanie, Mercedes, and Ella Through This Wild Time, Weaving in Bits and Pieces of Goldsmith-Thomas’s Experiences and Things She’s Overheard. IT’S been Called a Story of “Sex, Drugs, and Back-Stabbing,” and while it is got of that, it’s also about friendship, she teles us over the phone. She likes the Buzzy Read to a jacqueline Susann or Jackie Collins Romp Like Valley of the Dollsand it is Already been Green-Lit for a TV adaptation on Peacock with Darren Start Sigened on to Write and Co-EXCUTIVE PRODUCE WITH GOLDSMITH-Thomas.

Unil you can take in the glitz, glamor, and padded shoulderrs of the ’80s on the small screen, we caught up with goldsmith-thomas for the stories that didn’t make it ino the novel.

You mentioned that Jennifer Lopez Pushed You to Write the Book, but a lot of the novel is based on stories from your caareer. Was there a participle Story that inspired you to finally start wring?

I’ve always been a writer, but i was really good at being an agent, so i thought i could only will that. THEN I BECAME A PRODUCER, AND I KEPT WRITING QUIETly. At a Certain Point and Time, You Realie You Don’t Only Live Once: You Only Die Once, and You Live Everyday. If you have talent and passion to do more than one thing, fucking do it. We might all be multi-chyphenates and we might have to take the cornet strings that limit us to one lane. IT’S LIKE ONLY TRAVELING TO ONE COUNTRY OR ENING ONE FOOD.

How has the industry changed SINCE YOU STARTED? Your novel is set in the ’80s. Do you think it COULD TAKE PLACE TODAY?

The World Has Changed Becouse of Me Too. When you look at these women and the terrain they have climble through the prism of 2025 glasses, you go, “Oh my God, how is that that Guys Wold Come Up to You in the Hall and Say, ‘Can i Have a Little Head?’ It just wouldn’t opening now, but that not to say to say the aren’t challenges now. Every Generation Faces Its Own Challenge; The terrain is different but equally as difficult. In my time, it was the Wild, Wild West, Where the Bullies Had their Hands Slapped But Were Secretly Applaudd. Now the Business Is Constricalting, and It ‘Hard to Raise Your Voice to Be Seen or Heard to Break Through.

Will you Think Hollywood is Still a Boys’ Club?

I don’t know About Hollywood; I WOULD SAY LOOK AT THE WORLD. Bullies seem to be pervasive.

Are there any stories from your caareer that didn’t make it into this book? Why?

There’s a lot that is happy to do the include, and some of the stories are imagined. A Story I’ve Told is that bill cosby gave a luncheon for the secreretaries, and i was one of me. I was so happy to be there. In those days, when you were a secondary, it was the “male” room; You can have get into the male room. You had to say you want to be a Secretary, and Mr. Cosby Said to me, “I can see you want to do more,” and i was bold Enough to say, “Yes Sir, I Want to Represent You, and One Day Be the best agent you had.” And he laughed. Late, got a call saying he wanted with go to his hotel to sign contracts or something, and i almost went, but my friend said to go. Years late, I was thankful, and i didn’t put that in the book.

The Book is About Background People, The People Who Stand Close Enough, Hoping Maybe Some of the Power or Fame Rubs off.

ALSO IN THE BOOK, One of the Trains Talls Beanie that HIS BOSS LETS HIM LISTEN ON THE INTERCOM AS “AUDITS ACTRESSES,” Encouraging say to relax, take off their shoes or clothing, and then getting director on the phone. It was a cabal of boys who were all friends, who ran together and passsed around favor and actresses and recommendations.

“Page Six” Summarizes the novel as “Sex, Drugs, and Back-Stabbing in Hollywood.” Would you say that that is accurat or will you have a different summation of it?

I Think Is A Story of Friendship, Survival, and Betrayal. I ALSO THINK IT’S A Story of Women Becoming like the monsters they workhed for. I think you can’t judge say at the end of the day; You have to applaud say they have had them to scale a mountain in heels that was unscalable. Whene You Running the Maze, you have to figure out a different way in, and than’s what they will do.