Book jacket discolored and edges are chipping Knopf, 1976 book club edition, 340 pages In a stunning departure from the moods, settings, and concerns of his three best-selling novels, Thomas Tryon gives us Crowned Heads. Here are four supreme film stars-four fabulous interlocking lives that will stand as dramatic revelations of the incredible world whose unreal realities Tryon himself witnessed at first hand in his own years as a Hollywood star. First, FEDORA. "The Perfect Work of Art" Her enigma unriddled - the greatest, the most beautiful, the longest-reigning royalty of them all: her career spanning the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties; her glorious face untouched by time ... LORNA. "The All-American Cookie" -sexy, ap-pealing, climbing from cheapie gangster flicks to major roles; and slipping; most recently TV's Perkies Girl (Perkies Pop-Up Blueberry Tarts). Many jobs behind her, many men, much trouble. Now she has come to a secluded resort to find-to heal-herself... BOBBIT. For ten years "America's Fantasy Child," the adorable kiddie star of Bobbitt's Flying Carpet, Bobbitt's Lucky Day, etc., etc., etc.- Top Box Office nationwide. Now he is in his thirties, still adorable. But today the Bobbitt movies don't even turn up on TV tot matinees. And Bobbitt himself-does he exist at all? WILLIE. For decades a worldwide symbol of elegance and wit. Now he is alone in his showplace Hollywood villa-his precious "Bee" dead. Her ashes in a golden urn on the mantel- mourning the past. Until suddenly, fatally, with a knock on the door, the future breaks in. ...