North of Hollywood

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO ACT ALONGSIDE HOLLYWOOD GREATS LIKE GOLDIE HAWN AND WALTER MATTHAU?

Rick Lenz dishes the details in his new insider memoir North of Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 2012 - An intimate, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching and always honest account of making a living and living life next to Hollywood legends, Rick Lenz finds meaning in the experiences he's had as a successful actor through his new memoir North of Hollywood.

The book is full of anecdotes such as tough guy Al Pacino giving Lenz a gift of sorts, funny lady Lucille Ball being less than humorous with him in a dressing room and recounting his first meeting with Gwyneth Paltrow.

"North of Hollywood concentrates on the part of an actor's story that happens after a person has reached the goal of becoming a working actor—the point when the actor asks himself: How do I keep this from slipping away?" Lenz said.
"Even if as an actor you - unwittingly or not - sought the spotlight, how do you cope with the unnaturalness of it? How do you avoid the convoluted ego-involvement that severely limits so many show business lives?"