by Steve Krantz
"Only a woman can understand the courage necessary for Stevie to free herself from the tyranny of a hairdresser," writes Krantz at a pivotal point in his first novel. Only a man toying with the stuff of the genre could think that a woman chewing out her hairdresser makes a good plot climax. The colors on Krantz' palette (he produced Fritz the Cat; his wife wrote Scruples) are sex, murder, drugs, lesbianism, power and money. Gleefully, Krantz combines them into a tale about an orphan-turned-callgirl-turned-Hollywood-superagent that is at once compelling and mindless. The saga is familiar but Steve should cash in, a credit to the Krantz by-line. (Pocket Books, $2.50)
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