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Sto caricando le informazioni... Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"di Henry E. Scott
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Fun book! Story of the "rise and fall of Confidential, 'America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine' " . Explains how the magazine got started by Robert Harrison and how it evolved over time and was finally done in by lawsuits. Each chapter starts out with an article from the magazine and talks about the incident, how the information was obtained, etc. ( ) NPR is tricky. They have a way of making anything they talk about sound extremely interesting. I was absolutely tickled to get my hands on this book after hearing the author interviewed on Fresh Air. I have a minor degree in Film Studies, am a collector of vintage movie magazines, and wrote a term paper on Confidential and its ilk in college. Still, I'm no expert on the magazine, so I was excited to read this book and learn all the dirty details. What a disappointment. This is Scott's first book (he's an ad executive); he admits to not being a "movie fan" before writing it; and his inspiration came from reading L.A. Confidential on a plane. The result? A disjointed, unorganized, uninteresting mess of a book. In fact, it reads a lot like a term paper. The chapters are short and don't flow chronologically; he cites LONG passages from other works (my jaw dropped when he quoted FIVE PARAGRAPHS from Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, crediting it only as "a 2005 memoir"); and the way he references people and films (he describes the Rat Pack as "a group of actors") makes it look like he has NO IDEA what he's talking about. Maybe if you also don't know anything about the era he's describing, you might enjoy it too; and since it's so short and amateurish it's probably a good plane read (I got through it in a day). But if you know anything about this era or expect this work to be on par with other Old Hollywood nonfiction tomes, don't bother. You won't learn anything new and you'll be mad you wasted your time.
A short book, a long bibliography and a cautionary tale about the wisdom of flagrant tell-all tactics. We like that the author sometimes uses confidential sources — in true tabloid style — to tell some of the behind-the-scenes tales. [An] informative and enjoyable history. [Scott says] that he knew little about Hollywood before he began the book under review—and I believe him. Despite his lengthy bibliography, I’m not sure how much of it he has read. Or how deeply he has considered the history of scandal in the American picture business. (If you want to talk about scandal, you could begin with how this flimsy book emerged from Pantheon!)
Time defined it as "a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut." Here is the never-before-told tale of Confidential magazine, America's first tabloid, which forever changed our notion of privacy, our image of ourselves, and the practice of journalism in America. First published in 1952, its pages were filled with racy stories, sex scandals, and political exposés. In Confidential's pages, our most sacrosanct movie stars and heroes were exposed as wife beaters, homosexuals, neglectful mothers, sex obsessives, and mistresses of the rich and dangerous. Its founder and owner, a Lithuanian Jew from New York's Lower East Side who published a string of girlie magazines, and its editor, a former Communist Party member who renounced his party affiliation and became a virulent Red-hunter, combined to make the magazine the perfect confluence of explosive ingredients that reflected the America of its time.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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