Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything is the ultimate piece of media, a dishy and hilarious how-to guide for the under-35 set, and an ironic and bitingly perceptive portrait of a rudderless generation in search of itself. Florida Burns, syndicated gossip columnist and proud occupant of a converted maid's room in the famed Dakota apartments, is the ringmaster of a circus of careerists--young working women who are determined not to succumb to post-feminist despair. Florida may sound like a brassy professional, but inside she knows she's a "mushy pushover." One of Florida's girlfriends is a junior movie executive who is gunning for her job; the other is a fledging plant doctor who would warn Florida of their friend's ambitions, if only she hadn't just fallen in love with a Tony Award-winning actor whose hatred of the media includes Florida Burns. Into this world of schemes and affairs wanders Mike Markman, 29-year-old fast-food millionaire whose impulse is to find a mother for his oft-fantasized children--if only the women he met weren't making him "feel responsible for the lumpen sins of every male heterosexual." That he succeeds in connecting to Florida Burns in a social landscape populated by a column's worth of celebrities, aspirants, and hangers-on is the triumph of Tell Me Everything, a new kind of romance for the sexually schizophrenic 1970s.--From jacket flap