Hiaasen Adds Pop Slut Cherry Pye to Snooki, Palin: Interview
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Having ingested a mix of “vodka, Red Bull, hydrocodone, birdseed and stool softener,” pop singer Cherry Pye lies naked, “twitching like a poisoned cockroach on the carpet.”
Welcome to “Star Island,” Carl Hiaasen’s 12th novel, which skewers the cult of celebrity. Cherry’s rabid stage mom blames tummy problems for all the trips to the emergency room, her music promoter “nurses a criminal fondness for underage girls,” and a crazed paparazzo who thinks he’s Annie Leibovitz is out to kidnap her.