MixedSan Francisco Chronicle\"The problem is that Sleeping With Strangers is really two books glommed into one. The first, about queer desire, overflows with dish, dirt and juicy detail on the interplay of gay and straight, power and passion, who did whom and where, over many decades in Hollywood. The second one, about women, gets decidedly short shrift ... Sleeping With Strangers is great fun at times, especially when the book revels in the underground details that fueled so many Hollywood films. Traveling the breadth and depth of 20th century film (exhaustively and sometimes exhaustingly), Thomson examines a wide variety of queer subtexts ... The trouble comes when Thomson’s book turns to women. (This is perhaps not surprising, given an opening quote from Norman Mailer, whose ego and swinish approach to women had few rivals, at least until recently.) Thomson admires a lot of actresses, but his focus remains on male stars and directors, even when he finally gets around to the #MeToo movement ...I really wanted to like this book; a lot of it is excellent. But it strikes me as less than the sum of its parts, and a disservice to the reader. I hope someone else is writing a feminist re-examination of film history that focuses on the exploitation of women and our lack of representation in the ranks of Hollywood writers, directors and composers … Molly Haskell to the rescue, perhaps?\