The Importance of Being Famous - Hardcover

Orth, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805075453 ISBN 13: 9780805075458

Verlag: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2004

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"Maureen Orth is a remarkable reporter who happens to write beautifully. In every article, she gets to the very essence of the matter, which gives the reader a complete understanding of the complexity of her subjects. She is one of the defining commentators on this era of celebrity madness."

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Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, this National Magazine Award winner covers lives led in public, on camera, in the headlines. Here she takes us close - up into the world of fame - bridging entertainment, politics, and news - and the lives of those who understand the chemistry, the very DNA, of fame and how to create it, manipulate it, sustain it. Moving from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Michael Jackson, the ultimate child/monster of show business, Orth describes our evolution from a society where talent attracted attention to a place where the star - making machinery of the "celebrity - industrial complex" shapes, reshapes, and sells its gods (and monsters) to the public. From divas letting their hair down (Tina Turner) to Little Gods (Woody Allen and Princess Diana's almost father-in-law Mohammed Fayed), political theatre (Arnold's Hollywood hubris, Arianna Huttington's guru-guided gubernatorial quest), news - gone - soap - opera (I Love - Laci), and even the Queen Mother of reinvention (Madonna as dominatrix / children's book author), Orth delivers a portrait of an era. She shows us the real world of the big room where the rules that govern mere mortals don't matter - and anonymity is a crime.

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• Verlag: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0805075453
• ISBN 13: 9780805075458
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352