WHAT'S IT LIKE TO ACT ALONGSIDE HOLLYWOOD GREATS LIKE GOLDIE HAWN AND WALTER MATTHAU? Rick Lenz dishes the details in his new insider memoir North of Hollywood LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 2012 – An intimate, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching and always honest account of making a living and living life next to Hollywood legends, Rick Lenz finds meaning in the experiences he's had as a successful actor through his new memoir North of Hollywood (Feb. 15, 2012, Chromodroid Press).The book is full of anecdotes such as tough guy Al Pacino giving Lenz a gift of sorts, funny lady Lucille Ball being less than humorous with him in a dressing room and recounting his first meeting with Gwyneth Paltrow.“North of Hollywood concentrates on the part of an actor's story that happens after a person has reached the goal of becoming a working actor—the point when the actor asks himself: How do I keep this from slipping away?” Lenz said. “Even if as an actor you – unwittingly or not – sought the spotlight, how do you cope with the unnaturalness of it? How do you avoid the convoluted ego-involvement that severely limits so many show business lives?”