Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
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Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine
EN USISBN: 0375421394 bzw. 9780375421396, in Englisch, Pantheon, gebraucht.
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20th century,americas,communication and media studies,education and reference,history,politics and social sciences,popular culture,publishing and books,social sciences,writing research and publishing guides, A Q & A with Author Henry E. Scott Question: Shocking True Story is a full, behind-the-scenes look at the original scandal magazine that started it all--Confidential. You first came to this story, as you share in your acknowledgements, through another title, James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. How did that book start everything, and where did it take you? Henry E. Scott: I picked up James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential at an airport bookstore before boarding a flight several years ago from New York City to Istanbul. I was so captivated by Ellroy's book that I spent my first two days holed up in my hotel, finishing L.A. Confidential, before venturing out to explore exotic Istanbul. When I got back to New York, the one thing I wanted to know more about was Confidential magazine, which had a small supporting role in Ellroy's tale. To my amazement, I couldn't find a book about Confidential. I couldn't imagine anything more fun than writing one. Question: In telling the story of Confidential, Shocking True Story is populated with over-the-top characters--private eyes, movie stars, politicians, moguls--and of course scandal and intrigue of every kind. In all of this, two figures stand out--.
20th century,americas,communication and media studies,education and reference,history,politics and social sciences,popular culture,publishing and books,social sciences,writing research and publishing guides, A Q & A with Author Henry E. Scott Question: Shocking True Story is a full, behind-the-scenes look at the original scandal magazine that started it all--Confidential. You first came to this story, as you share in your acknowledgements, through another title, James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. How did that book start everything, and where did it take you? Henry E. Scott: I picked up James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential at an airport bookstore before boarding a flight several years ago from New York City to Istanbul. I was so captivated by Ellroy's book that I spent my first two days holed up in my hotel, finishing L.A. Confidential, before venturing out to explore exotic Istanbul. When I got back to New York, the one thing I wanted to know more about was Confidential magazine, which had a small supporting role in Ellroy's tale. To my amazement, I couldn't find a book about Confidential. I couldn't imagine anything more fun than writing one. Question: In telling the story of Confidential, Shocking True Story is populated with over-the-top characters--private eyes, movie stars, politicians, moguls--and of course scandal and intrigue of every kind. In all of this, two figures stand out--.
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Shocking True Story
EN NW EBISBN: 9780375421396 bzw. 0375421394, in Englisch, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, neu, E-Book.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Ebook for download.
History, Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential : Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house . . . Tom Wolfe called it the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world . . . Time defined it as a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig up one sensational fact,' embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. 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. The magazine came out every two months, was printed on pulp paper, and cost a quarter. Its pages were filled with racy stories, sex scandals, and political exposs. It offered advice about the dangers of cigarettes and advocated various medical remedies. Its circulation, at the height of its popularity, was three million. It was first published in 1952 and took the country by storm. Readers loved its lurid red-and-yellow covers; its sensational stories filled with innuendo and titillating details; its articles that went far beyond most movie magazines, like Photoplay and Modern Screen, and told the real stories such trade publications as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter couldn't, since they, and the movie magazines, were financially dependent onor controlled bythe Hollywood studios. In Confidential' s pages, homespun America was revealed as it really was: our most sacrosanct movie stars and heroes were exposed as wife beaters (Bing Crosby), homosexuals (Rock Hudson and Liberace), neglectful mothers (Rita Hayworth), sex obsessives (June Allyson, the cutie with the page boy and Peter Pan collar), mistresses of the rich and dangerous (Kim Novak, lover of Ramfis Trujillo, playboy son of the Dominican Republic dictator). Confidential' s alliterative headlines told of tawny temptresses (black women passing for white), pinko partisans (liberals), lisping lads (homosexuals) . . . and promised its readers what the newspapers wouldn't reveal: The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe's Divorce . . . How James Dean Knew He Had a Date with Death . . . The magazine's style, success, and methods ultimately gave birth to the National Enquirer , Star, People, E!, Access Hollywood, and TMZ . . . We see the two men at the magazine's center: its founder and owner, Robert Harrison, a Lithuanian Jew from New York's Lower East Side who wrote for The New York Graphic and published a string of girlie magazines, including Titter, Wink, and Flirt (Bogart called the magazine's founder and owner the King of Leer) . . . and Confidential 's most important editor: Howard Rushmore, small-town boy from a Wyoming homestead; passionate ideologue; former member of the Communist Party who wrote for the Daily Worker, renounced his party affiliation, and became a virulent Red-hunter; close pal of FB, eBook.
History, Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential : Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house . . . Tom Wolfe called it the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world . . . Time defined it as a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig up one sensational fact,' embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. 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. The magazine came out every two months, was printed on pulp paper, and cost a quarter. Its pages were filled with racy stories, sex scandals, and political exposs. It offered advice about the dangers of cigarettes and advocated various medical remedies. Its circulation, at the height of its popularity, was three million. It was first published in 1952 and took the country by storm. Readers loved its lurid red-and-yellow covers; its sensational stories filled with innuendo and titillating details; its articles that went far beyond most movie magazines, like Photoplay and Modern Screen, and told the real stories such trade publications as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter couldn't, since they, and the movie magazines, were financially dependent onor controlled bythe Hollywood studios. In Confidential' s pages, homespun America was revealed as it really was: our most sacrosanct movie stars and heroes were exposed as wife beaters (Bing Crosby), homosexuals (Rock Hudson and Liberace), neglectful mothers (Rita Hayworth), sex obsessives (June Allyson, the cutie with the page boy and Peter Pan collar), mistresses of the rich and dangerous (Kim Novak, lover of Ramfis Trujillo, playboy son of the Dominican Republic dictator). Confidential' s alliterative headlines told of tawny temptresses (black women passing for white), pinko partisans (liberals), lisping lads (homosexuals) . . . and promised its readers what the newspapers wouldn't reveal: The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe's Divorce . . . How James Dean Knew He Had a Date with Death . . . The magazine's style, success, and methods ultimately gave birth to the National Enquirer , Star, People, E!, Access Hollywood, and TMZ . . . We see the two men at the magazine's center: its founder and owner, Robert Harrison, a Lithuanian Jew from New York's Lower East Side who wrote for The New York Graphic and published a string of girlie magazines, including Titter, Wink, and Flirt (Bogart called the magazine's founder and owner the King of Leer) . . . and Confidential 's most important editor: Howard Rushmore, small-town boy from a Wyoming homestead; passionate ideologue; former member of the Communist Party who wrote for the Daily Worker, renounced his party affiliation, and became a virulent Red-hunter; close pal of FB, eBook.
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Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
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