PositiveThe Los Angeles TimesEve Babitz is a little like Madame de Sevigne, that inveterate letter-writer of Louis XIV\'s time, transposed to the Chateau Marmont in the late 20th-Century—unching, chatting, dressing, loving and crying in Hollywood, that latter-day Versailles ... If all this sounds shallow, oddly enough it isn\'t, and I can\'t quite say why. I mean, it is , but it isn\'t.
