The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex
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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.
Customer Review: Celbrity Biographies all in one book!
Very entertaining, Maureen Orth gives us "biographies" of many famous poeple. If you are interested in true stories of fame and fortune, this is a great read. I found it to be very interesting.
Customer Review: Ms. Orth Has Her Finger On The Pulse of Celebrity
Although I'm a little late coming to the table, I found this book a stroll down memory lane. I was amazed at how many stories I had forgotten over the years. While they are now dated (this is 2005)they still resonate. The Woody Allen-Mia Farrow scandal was refreshed and I was once again shaken at the allegations. I met Ms. Farrow in London in 1970 and she was exactly as I had imagined her to be. Incredibly beautiful and incredibly delicate. But like any good mother, when one of her children was put in harms way she became a bastion of strength. The book is full of interesting stories of interesting people. You won't find the B and C-list one-hit-wonders in here. I would love to see her write another book about the bad boys and gals of Hollywood we see all the time in court these days. I am a big fan of Ms. Orth. I wish she would write more often.
