First Line Alert

Here is a really good first line from a new book by Steven Bochco called Death by Hollywood.

There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you-not because they like you, but because they want to see how soft you are before they eat you alive.

Steven Bochco is of course the creator of Hill Street Blues, LA Law, and NYPD Blue, but also the creator of Doogie Howser, MD, Hooperman, and Cop Rock. Interestingly, the author bio on the back dust jacket flap only mentions the first three.