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Vanity Fair's veteran special correspondent pulls back the curtain on the world of celebrity and those who live and die there
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 theater (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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Publication Date:
May 3, 2004
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Maureen Orth’s
The Importance of Being Famous
Cast of Characters
Tina Turner,
Margaret Thatcher,
Madonna,
Karl Lagerfeld,
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington,,
Susan Gutfreund,
Denise Rich,
Gerry Adams,
Vladimir Putin,
Carlos Menem,
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow,
Dana Giacchetto,
Mohamed Fayed,
Andrew Cunanan,
Michael Jackson,
Margot Fonteyn
Also Discussed:
O.J. Simpson, Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sarah Jessica Parker, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz, Winona Ryder, Martha Stewart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Colin Powell, Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Sharon Stone, Monica Lewinsky, Cher, Newt Gingrich, Al Franken, Lenny Kravitz, Siegfried and Roy, Bill Maher, Aaliyah, Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Barbara Streisand, Harry Shearer, Marilyn Manson, Tommy Lee, Celia Cruz, Julianne Moore, Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Bill Murray, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Donald Trump, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Rosie O’Donnell, Roseanne Barr, Ben Affleck, and Tobey Maguire.
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