<B>Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in <I>Dead Stars</I>, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood.</B><BR><BR> Telma, the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old that’s undergone a mastectomy. Reeyonna, a pregnant teenager, believes she will befriend Kanye West by auditioning for pregnant teenage porn. A photographer, Jacquie, rejuvenates her career by turning her lens toward dead babies. And Michael Douglas searches for purpose and meaning when his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on the television series, <I>Glee</I>.<BR><BR> Wagner gives a tour through the lowest depths of fame-seeking behavior and idolatry in what <I>The New York Times </I>called a “collagelike picture of Hollywood as a sewer of depravity.”<BR>