Download or read book What I Learned From 50 Celebrities written by Farrell Hirsch and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farrell Hirsch has lived more lives than any dozen of the proverbial rejuvenating cats you've heard about. Not many people can say they've launched multiple national radio networks, worked with the coaching staff of a major league sports team, executive produced star-studded awards shows, been the co-creator of high-tech start up, written a play that played at Lincoln Center, optioned a TV pilot to major production company, and been the CEO of a nationally recognized not-for profit. Hirsch was one of the people who founded The Ovation Awards, LA's answer to The Tonys. Writing, producing, and lining up talent for those shows for seven years brought him into contact with stars like Charlton Heston, Annette Bening, Carol Burnett, Neal Patrick Harris, Stephen Sondheim, Nathan Lane, Danny Glover, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and hundreds more. And then, for no particular reason, since he hadn't really ever worked in radio, he was hired to launch national radio networks, on SiriusXM. The first of these was taking on the inimitable task of turning the world's most visual brand, Playboy, into something viable in the world's least visual medium, radio. The endless drudgery of having to spend countless evenings at The Playboy Mansion parties, of recording Bill Cosby, Etta James, Elvis Costello at the Playboy Jazz Festival, having celebrities like Carmen Electra, Donald Trump, Fleetwood Mac come in the studio, hanging at the Super Bowl with Warren Moon and Lil John was exhausting. These are his stories…

Download or read book Sensational Chocolate written by Paul A. Young and published by Clearview. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master chocolatier Paul A. Young has assembled a glittering array of celebrities to share their secret chocolate recipes for this book including Rob Lowe, Gordon Ramsay, and Wolfgang Puck. The book features stunning photography of all the glorious recipes and a proportion of the proceeds of the book sales will be donated to charity. Paul A. Young's first book, Adventures with Chocolate, won the World's Best Chocolate Book at the Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Paris and in 2014 Paul was named Outstanding British Chocolatier by the International Chocolate Awards. Paul appears regularly on TV, with appearances in the United States on the Nate Berkus Show.

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 What Celebrities Collect written by Michele Karl and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's view into the secret treasures of America's most beloved celebrities.

Download or read book Faces of Learning written by Sam Chaltain and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational stories of engaging, real-life educational experiences Everyone has a personal learning story, a time when they became actively engaged in their own education. Maybe it was an especially challenging teacher, or a uniquely supportive environment, or a collaborative classroom. In Faces of Learning, both well-known public figures, such as Arne Duncan and Al Franken, and ordinary Americans recall the moments when they truly learned something. Includes stories from people of all different backgrounds and from all over the country The stories are grouped into categories by theme like "relevant" and "experiential" to help reveal the common characteristics of what works in education Each chapter ends with five things you can do to improve your own learning, that of your students, and of all Americans Readers can visit the companion website www.facesoflearning.net to share their own stories of educational success and find out what else they can do.

Download or read book Show Me written by Randall Kenneth Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a Story for the Ages... Boy does well. Boy teeters on midlife crisis. Boy moves to Florida, becomes a newspaper columnist and enlists the help of Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Brian Boitano, James Carville, Barbara Corcoran, Jack Hanna, Heloise, Magic Johnson, Shirley Jones, Sue Monk Kidd, Kathy Griffin, Hoda Kotb, Rob Marciano, Tyler Mathisen, Mary Matalin, Colin Mochrie, Suze Orman, Dr. David Perlmutter, Willard Scott, Vanessa Williams and almost 100 more to show him how to get his mojo back. Show Me is a result of over 50 years of research: 50-plus years of living a life, 10 years of journaling about that life, and four years as a columnist writing about people who, at one time, Jones assumed lived a better life than he did. In his battle against time, short attention spans and emotionally bereft modern technology, Jones wages an editorial war against pessimism by waving his journalistic flag in the promotion of creative thinking, positive communication, innovation, authenticity, respect and LAUGHTER. Now, with the help of his treasured gallery of informants-starting with the influencers from his days as a showy-yet-sensitive, bunny-fearing Mid-Missouri youngster to his exploration of modern-day success-family man, entrepreneur and humorist Randall Kenneth Jones hopes to SHOW YOU what all of these extraordinary people so graciously SHOWED HIM. Show Me showcases how to learn from your past, embrace your present, grow personally and professionally, laugh at yourself and banish mediocrity-by listening, learning and respecting the never-ending balance between ambition and tradition.

Download or read book 50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do written by Daniel Kline and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every guy who’s ever wondered how to start a business, get a job in sports, survive in prison—or program a VCR—50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do is the one irreplaceable source for all the answers. The guy’s guide to 50 essential skills—by the guys (and gals) who know best Daniel Kline and Jason Tomaszewski go straight to the experts, obtaining advice on joke-telling from Woody Allen, weight-loss secrets from Richard Simmons, and fashion tips from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Carson Kressley. Within these pages, you’ll learn how to: • Bluff like a Pro: poker legend Amarillo Slim offers ten keys to No-Limit Texas Hold’Em • Pimp your ride: West Coast Customs’ Q shares the best ways to trick out your car • Land a gig on a reality TV show: Mark Cronin, producer ofThe Surreal Life, gives the inside scoop • Cheat on your wife: Judith Brandt, author of The 50 Mile Rule: Your Guide to Infidelity and Marital Etiquette, offers her take

Download or read book Being in the Room written by Rob Giardinelli and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you find your voice and learn from experiences where you feel like a fish out of water? Join Rob Giardinelli, a technology executive-turned-expert social chronicler as he navigates the world of million dollar high society galas and celebrity soirées. Covering the high-flying Texas social world for The Society Diaries magazine, he's found himself thrust into situations he'd never imagined. Giardinelli learns to be comfortable in unfamiliar spaces, ultimately learning how to gain incredible insight around well-known, influential figures and chronicling their high-flying lifestyles in the process. Encountering remarkable personalities - including socialites, celebrities and corporate tycoons - Giardinelli learns from their unfiltered authenticity and distills those experiences into lessons for everyday life. As with many books featuring notable and successful people, pseudonyms have been used to these well-known personalities. Whether poignant, pragmatic or simply outrageous, each insight is gained by following the fundamental principle: the best lessons are learned by putting yourself in places you'd never expect. By being in the moment... by Being in the Room.

Download or read book Celebrity written by Chris Rojek and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point. But how have people like Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bill Clinton or Princess Diana impressed themselves so powerfully on the public mind? Do they have unique qualities, or have their images been constructed by the media? And what of the dark side of celebrity – why is the hunger to be in the public eye so great that people are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it, as numerous mass murderers and serial killers have done. Chris Rojek brings together celebrated figures from the arts, sports, politics and other public spheres, from O.J. Simpson and Marilyn Monroe to Hitler and David Bowie, and touches on many movements and fads, including punk, rock-and-roll and fashion. Rojek analyzes the difference between ascribed celebrity, which derives from bloodline, and achieved celebrity, which follows on from personal achievement - the difference between Princess Margaret and, say, Woody Allen. He also shows how there is no parallel in history to today's ubiquitous "living" form of celebrity, powered by newspapers, PR departments, magazines and electronic mass media.

Download or read book The Celebrity Experience written by Donna Cutting and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celebrity Experience combines the best practices of the business world with those of the celebrity world to create a practical and proactive guide for anyone who wants to bring their business’s internal and external customer service to the level of star treatment. Based on the unique ways celebrities are treated, the book shares techniques you can use to treat your customers to a red-carpet experience, guaranteeing repeat business and stellar word of mouth.

Download or read book Celebrity Politics written by Mark Wheeler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today. Celebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a profound impact upon the practice of politics and the way in which it is now communicated. New forms of political participation have emerged as a result and the political classes have increasingly absorbed the values of celebrity into their own PR strategies. Celebrity activists, endorsers, humanitarians and diplomats also play a part in reconfiguring politics for a more fragmented and image-conscious public arena. In academic circles, celebrity may be viewed as a ‘manufactured product’; one fabricated by media exposure so that celebrity activists are no more than ‘bards of the powerful.’ Mark Wheeler, however, provides a more nuanced critique contending that both celebrity politicians and politicized stars should be defined by their ‘affective capacity’ to operate within the public sphere. This timely book will be a valuable resource for students of media and communication studies and political science as well as general readers keen to understand the nature and reach of contemporary celebrity culture.

Download or read book A Celebrity Survival Guide written by Travis Weimer and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tips for Respectfully Interacting with Celebrities in Their Natural Habitat. "A celebrity is a person who works all his life to become well known, then wears dark sunglasses to avoid being recognized." Fred Allen Come take a three hour tour that explores America's favorite past time - STAR GAZING! This book explores the wonderful world of celebrity status and highlights some of the difficulties that many fans sometimes forget about. We have studied, witnessed, analyzed and categorized today's hottest celebrities into their various "animal" categories. What's more, we draw clear guidelines on how to respectfully approach your favorite celebrity animal without scaring them away. We outline a step-by-step process on how to get what you want from your star, without looking like an idiot. This book is taking a light approach to what can and has been a serious issue. Although fans are the ones that make celebrities, they are quite often the ones to break them as well. If you are looking for info on America's royalty - "The Celebrity"- then this book will help you experience the star-struck phenomenon first hand. "Two things have really changed my life. Going to jail and reading The Celebrity Survival Guide! To all of you fans out there - get this book and read it! It's HOT!" P.H. "I know that the world is in need of elite units to help eradicate the vast networks of fundamentalist groupies. The Celebrity Survival Guide provides a solid stratigery for successfully overcoming fan terrorism worldwide. Travis & Shalisse - 'Mission Accomplished!" G.W.B "Fans are thoughtless little pigs! I don't give a d**m that you're a fan! The crap you pull on us Celebrities that you would never dream of doing to your mother, and you do it to us constantly over and over again! Well, you've made us feel like s**t for the last time! The Celebrity Survival Guidewill straighten you're a** out!" (Voicemail message left by) A.B. "With The Celebrity Survival Guide, Travis & Shalisse have finally given celebrities a chance to say 'Hasta la Vista' to rude fans everywhere.I encourage all fans to read this book and terminate their bad behaviors! A.S. "The Celebrity Survival Guideis better than my daily CIA briefings!" C.R.

Download or read book Scandalous written by Hallie Fryd and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes 50 juicy pop culture, political, and entertainment-related scandals complete with photos, event synopses, anda look at why it went down in history and how it continues to influence us today.

Download or read book Celebrities Against Violence written by Truman R. Keys and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence is more than an issue in America. It is a pandemic, its negative impacts and corrosive character are harming us whether we are a victim, a bystander or professional tasked with public health and safety. Violence affects us regardless of class or social standing. For decades, celebrities and well-known public figures have taken to the media to share their own experiences with violence. This book spotlights the celebrities and their loved ones who have survived self-harm, bullying, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, family abuse, home invasion, gun violence, or police brutality. Violence prevention experts increasingly recognize the influence of celebrities and work with them to spread awareness. This collection of case studies aims to support this growing influence by documenting the effects of violence prevention through celebrity advocacy.

Download or read book Celebrity Leverage Insider Secrets to Getting Celebrity Endorsements Instant Credibility and Star Powered Publicity Or How to Make Your written by Jordan McAuley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover creative strategies for getting your products in celebrities' hands, getting low-cost and free celebrity endorsements, linking your business, product or service to celebrities in other ways, and even making yourself into a celebrity in your field. All of these strategies are Celebrity Leverage. Shows you how to get other celebrities to promote your business, your products, and your services. Reveals how to turn yourself into a celebrity in your area, your niche and your field.

Download or read book Interview Magazine written by Bob Colacello and published by Assouline. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Andy Warhol launched Interview, an underground film journal that quickly transformed into an iconic symbol of New York City culture and style. The monthly's expansive conversations and irreverent approach opened doors to the intimate circles of society and became a launchpad for creative talents such as André Leon Talley and Fran Lebowitz. With a vibrant mix of rising celebrities including Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside the legendary presence of Elizabeth Taylor and Steven Spielberg, the magazine became known as "The Crystal Ball of Pop." Now, fifty years since its inception, dive into the extraordinary archives of Interview and rediscover the columns, photography and voices that collectively tell the history of American culture decade by decade.

Download or read book Hollywood Stories written by Stephen Schochet and published by Hollywood Stories. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained!