Hollywood. Love it or hate it, there is no denying that its influence is far-reaching and consequential. Poet Laurence Overmire takes us deep into the dark heart of the tinsel town world he knows very well; a world where pretense is a virtue, make-believe is real, and money is a provocative plaything. Behind those dark sunglasses it may be easy to lose sight of who we really are. Have you Gone Hollywood? Have your relatives, your friends, your neighbors? Be ready to drop the shades as you turn these pages and take a good look at the realities behind the illusions.

A world in crisis: Economic. Political. Social. Spiritual. The climate changing, the stock market plunging. Species becoming extinct. Disease, famine, overpopulation. War. Nuclear annihilation? Revolution or evolution? Where is mankind heading? What is the fate of human civilization on our little Planet Earth? In Report From X Star 10, Laurence Overmire, poet, philosopher and visionary, takes the reader on a startling adventure through time and space, a roller coaster ride of up and down emotional twist and turn, burrowing into the dark tunnels of human nature and finishing, somewhat short of breath, somewhere in the light of renewed promise and hopeful beginning. This innovative book of poetry also contains original art by the poet, all created in bitmaps, which Overmire calls "the cave painting of the Technology Age."