

The book - which was written in 2010 and revised in 2021 - focuses on the movie’s creation of a female archetype that transcended Hepburn herself and has little to do with the Holly Golightly described by Truman Capote in his original novel. Since the era of Hollywood’s first stars, American moviegoers have been devouring a steady dosage of self-image.” Thus begins Californian journalist Sam Wasson’s Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. “And I’m sorry to report, for the worse The real reason certain actors become stars and others do not is regrettably not so glamorous… studios manufactured stars to suit the fears and fantasies of the day, giving faces to paradigm shifts, and therefore historical consequence to their chosen personae. The definition of what constitutes a star in 21st-century Hollywood has changed.
