Download or read book Flirting with Fame A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters color Version hardback written by Dan Harary and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious stories from a publicist who's met Everyone.
Download or read book Flirting with Fame hardback written by Dan Harary and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hollywood publicist relates his best stories.
Download or read book Starmaker written by Jay Bernstein and published by ECW/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by the legendary publicist offers “an intimate glimpse into the best and the worst of the golden age of Hollywood” (Stacy Keach, Golden Globe Award–nominated actor). Jay Bernstein, an entertainment industry fixture who helped launch the careers of celebrities including Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers, was famed for his sense of showmanship, his outrageous style, and the publicity stunts he engineered to get attention for his clients. Starmaker tells his story, from his childhood in Oklahoma City and his first job in a Hollywood mailroom to the ownership of his own public relations firm and his work as a television producer. In addition to a behind-the-scenes look at several generations of show business and hard-hitting insights about how the industry changed over the decades, Bernstein also describes the relationships he had with stars and his notorious techniques, such as paying women to throw hotel keys at Tom Jones, having Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart’s legs insured for one million dollars, and getting married underwater for an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. With the wisdom of experience and a sense of humor, this autobiography shares the intimate details of a fascinating Hollywood life.
Download or read book Shooting Stars written by Jennifer Buhl and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get an Insider Glimpse into What Life is Really Like Among Hollywood's Bright Lights and Big Stars As a young woman struggling to make ends meet in L.A., photographer Jennifer Buhl never dreamed that a chance encounter with the paparazzi would lead her to chasing celebrities around in her bright-red, beat-up pickup truck. It wasn't long before she became one of the most successful "paps" in the business, photographing and interacting with stars up close and seeing her iconic pictures across magazine covers nationwide. A Hilarious and Utterly Addictive Memoir... Shooting Stars is the first memoir to offer the inside scoop on the world of paparazzi and their surprisingly cooperative relationship with the stars. Jennifer recounts her wild ride through this testosterone-driven industry with moxie, weaving juicy real-life celebrity encounters with her own poignant story of searching for love and finding her way among the glittering lights of Tinseltown. An Irresistible Snapshot... A smart and sassy chronicle of celebrity culture, fame, and the art of perfect timing, Shooting Stars reveals the real lives of Hollywood's rich and famous—from behind the camera.
Download or read book Toxic Fame written by Joey Berlin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the world loves a celebrity, but fame has its price. Toxic Fame offers irresistibly candid insight into the high cost of being famous, from the viewpoint of the famous themselves. In their own words, high-profile celebrities share intimate details about their star status--and the toll it takes on their lives. Photos.
Download or read book Celebrity Stew written by Leo Pearlstein and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fame Formula written by Mark Borkowski and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how, in the hands of notorious Hollywood fixers Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling, publicity agents Russell Birdwell, Warren Cowan, Henry Rogers and more, the publicity industry became a corporate behometh.
Download or read book Fame Junkies written by Jake Halpern and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical study of America's rabid fascination with the lives of celebrities draws on numerous personal interviews--with fans, Hollywood insiders, and would-be celebrities--to examine the psychological, sociological, and biological roots of the obsession, as well as its implications for modern life. By the author of Braving Home. Reprint.
Download or read book I m Your Biggest Fan written by Kate Coyne and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides an unfiltered and hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous, as she reveals how being a fan-girl lead to celebrity close encounters she could only dream of growing up. From the NY Post's "Page Six" to Good Housekeeping and now People, Kate Coyne has spent years on the front lines of the entertainment industry, feeding our insatiable appetite for celebrity news and gossip. I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN chronicles her journey from red-carpet reporter to upper-level editor and the countless surreal, surprising, and awkward interactions she had with stars along the way. Featuring A-listers such as Michael Douglas (who warned her about tabloid reporting), Tom Cruise (whose behavior will surprise you) and Tom Hanks (who, yes, is wonderful) Coyne's stories reveal insights about pop culture's biggest icons-and the journalist who has followed their every move.
Download or read book The Importance of Being Famous written by Maureen Orth and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book achieves a fresh spin thanks to incisive updates and story-behind-the-story anecdotes, all peppered with the author's pull-no-punches observations."-People Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth covers lives led in public, on camera, at the very top-from Margaret Thatcher to Tina Turner, from the political theater of the Clinton White House to the strange kingdom of Princess Diana's almost father-in-law. Now this National Magazine Award-winning reporter pulls back the curtain to reveal those who flourish (or sometimes flame out) at these heady altitudes, unraveling their complex lives and exploring the chemistry, the very DNA, of celebrity today. The Importance of Being Famous is a portrait of an era where the media grew larger, the distinction between fame and infamy grew smaller, and celebrity ruled all. Orth delivers a revealing, sophisticated look at the big room of modern celebrity and the star-making machinery of the "celebrity-industrial complex."
Download or read book The First Lady of Hollywood written by Samantha Barbas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in service of Hearst's political and personal agendas. As she traces Parsons's life and career, Samantha Barbas situates Parson's experiences within the broader trajectory of Hollywood history, charting the rise of the star system and the complex interactions of publicity, journalism, and movie-making. The First Lady of Hollywood is both a chronicle of one of the most powerful women in American journalism and film and a penetrating analysis of celebrity culture and Hollywood power politics."--Jacket.
Download or read book My Love Affair with Hollywood written by Jackie Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Hollywood almost 90 years ago, Jackie Epstein has had a love affair with the city of her birth and the movie stars she admired on the big screen, since early childhood. Through her numerous careers as a Hollywood columnist, tennis columnist, speaker, and publicist for film and television, and her husband's career as a journalist, doors opened to the glamourous industry that brought adventures beyond her dreams, access to hundreds of celebrities, and the lifestyle of the rich, while she raised a family on a paycheck-to-paycheck income. Come share this fun-filled roller-coaster ride as Jackie tells of her love of family and life, and offers upbeat and humorous anecdotes of professional and personal encounters with the big-hearted and talented entertainment and tennis stars she met along the way--while her love of family and zest for life illuminate every page.
Download or read book The Making of Hollywood Stars written by Tommy Lightfoot Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Garrett, a Hollywood insider, does it again! The Hollywood press agent, columnist, Radio and Television personality and Author has penned another tome on the elite of Hollywood. Garrett mixes the old with the new with special consideration on current stars of this era, many of which he has known personally or through their Hollywood connections. This is the third book for the author, previous books are: Letters from a Known Woman: Joan Fontaine and the first in this series of books, So, You Want To Be In Pictures: The Making of Hollywood Idols. The Making of Hollywood Stars features the following stars of today and yesteryear: Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jude Law, Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, John Stamos, Tom Selleck, Michael Bergin, Julie Newmar, Anita Ekberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ty Hardin, Elizabeth Taylor, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Adrian Grenier, Hugh Jackman, Anderson Cooper, designer Tom Ford, Josh Duhamel, Ingo Rademacher, Lucille Ball, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Nina Foch, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Virginia Mayo, Alain Delon, Dick VanDyke, Rutger Hauer and soap star - Cameron Mathison. Tommy is candid and honest about all these stars. He goes into how Virginia Mayo's racist rants pointed at him and others around her. How Tom Cruise may not be one of the world's best actors but what makes him remain top gun among current Hollywood stars. Tommy feels that Russell Crowe is the best actor since Henry Fonda, and there are personal things about his relationships with many of today's stars and yesterday's big stars that you get to read about in this book. How Anita Ekberg chastised him for referring to her as an older star, his insight into Jennifer Aniston's struggle with relationships with not only her ex Brad Pitt but her mother. Tommy's work as a press agent, journalist and on-air personality puts him in direct contact with not only these mega stars but family, friends and handlers who tell him the scoop about all of these stars.
Download or read book Making It written by Reba Merrill and published by Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what Angelina Jolie fears the most, or what Dustin Hoffman did to ease tension on a film set? What did Whitney Houston think about fame? Find out the secrets of the stars as you go behind the scenes of some of your favorite films with Reba Merrill, and international entertainment journalist who has interviewed hundreds of celebrities while promoting over 500 feature films. Follow Reba's personal journey as she conquers her own addiction and survives the challenging road to success in Hollywood, learning along the way that a celebrity's problems are not so different from our own.
Download or read book Hollywood Secrets and Scandals Hardback written by Sue Cameron and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most amazing secrets from Hollywood you never knew, including stories on Sonny and Cher, Ozzie and Harriet, Carole King, Suzanne Somers, Lucie Arnaz, Carrie Fisher and more. "Jimmy Stewart really was in love with me." - Kim Novak "The police accused me of killing Sharon Tate." - Cass Elliot "I want a vibrator for my birthday." - Debbie Reynolds "I'm going to throw up. Keep Sonny away." - Cher "Sue, you're the terror of the west coast." - Mario Puzo, Godfather author "I have your balls now, you Nazi, and you're not getting them back." - Joan Rivers
Download or read book Confessions of a Hollywood Publicist written by Daniel D. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Hollywood Publicist written by Daniel D. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
