A look inside Hollywood and the movies incorporating Outtakes, Cinefile and Production Chart. : KISS-AND-TELL FILE : The People Who Hate Her for Writing It Must Be Buying It . . . <i> Don’t You Think?</i>

Julia Phillips’ no-holds barred Inside Hollywood book “You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again” has taken off nationwide, hitting No. 1 on today’s New York Times bestseller list. Published the week of Feb. 25, the book is now in its fifth printing and, according to Random House, is being reordered by stores at the rate of 25,000 copies a day.

Phillips isn’t surprised. “This book touches a lot of deep nerves that have nothing to do with Hollywood,” she told Calendar. “I always knew it would be a civilian hit. There’s a lot of anger out there, a lot of people who went belly-up, people who are lost and discovering that money isn’t the only issue in life.”

“At the risk of sounding pretentious,” she continued, “my story is the iconographic, capitalist story of the second half of the 20th Century. It’s about addiction, loss of the object of my desire. It’s a Hollywood book like no other--and I include Norman Mailer’s ‘The Deer Park’ in that picture.”

Phillips denies that her book is inaccessible to folks who can’t tell Michael Eisner from Michael Milken. “I didn’t write icons, but ‘people,’ ” she said, adding that there’s someone like record impresario Irving Azoff in every city, “someone 5 feet tall who runs the local auto dealership--a guy who’s angry all the time and makes people miserable.”

Still, she acknowledged that “the timing was fortuitous. I never thought that I’d be thanking a Republican President, but the war did end the day before my book came out. The subject matter might have been considered too frivolous otherwise.”

Phillips claimed that the maitre d’ at Mortons called to advise her she was no longer welcome there, but maintains the title of her book, thus far, hasn’t been borne out.

“To begin with, I (exercise) midday rather than eat lunch. And dinners are the same as always. This past week, I hit Tommy Tang’s, Orso, Sushiko’s. I can go anywhere--except Mortons.”