The lifestyle of the rich and famous has an undeniable allure. There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you know you are acquiring the very best. L.A. FIRST CLASS: The Best of the Best (Globe-Pequot Press, Guilford, CT), by Hollywood insider, Merle Elias, is the ultimate little black book of L.A.’s best goods and services.

This guide gives readers inside information on personal services usually known only to the wealthy and their personal assistants. The fun-to-read gossipy, and interesting commentary offers inside knowledge on where the stars and socialites shop, who they use to entertain, where their kids go to school, and much more.

Material is organized into 16 chapters, from Art to Travel, and further broken down by practical subtopic. More than 100 entries provide the company and contact’s name, address, full contact information, and a subjective summary of its services, plus its “claim to fame” or celebrity angle. In L.A. FIRST CLASS you will learn where Kevin Costner and Al Pacino take their pets to be trained, who was chosen to cater an important Democratic Party fundraiser at Steven Spielberg’s place, who waxes Oprah’s eyebrows, and where Jim Carrey and Jamie Lee Curtis go to have their clothes impeccably tailored.

While enjoyable for its “rich and famous” angle, L.A. FIRST CLASS is invaluable to people in the entertainment and travel industries, personal shoppers, event planners, educated consumers, tourists, business travelers, and anyone who understands that “money knows quality.”

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