They say a writer’s environment is key to their creative process, so it’s no wonder Carder Stout’s new memoir has received rave five-star reviews.The Los Angeles film producer turned Hollywood therapist is showing me around the room where he’s counselled Oscar and Grammy-winners, exchanged nostalgic lockdown emails with BFF Gwyneth Paltrow and — most recently — written a 300-page book about his escapades with “old friends” Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Anna Wintour.
The desk I can see over Zoom overlooks the Topanga Canyon in the Santa Monica mountains where Jimi Hendrix had a house and Neil Young wrote his album After the Gold Rush, and the room itself is the very space where record producer Steven Kipner wrote classics such as Olivia.
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