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The Importance of Being Famous : Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industial Complex
The Importance of Being Famous Behind the Scenes of the CelebrityIndustial Complex
Author: Maureen Orth
"The book achieves a fresh spin thanks to incisive updates and story-behind-the-story anecdotes, all peppered with the author's pull-no-punches observations." -PeopleVanity Fair's Maureen Orth covers lives led in public, on camera, at the very top-from Margaret Thatcher to Tina Turner, from the political theater of the Cl...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780805078473
ISBN-10: 0805078479
Publication Date: 5/1/2005
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Owl Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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buzzby avatar reviewed The Importance of Being Famous : Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industial Complex on + 6062 more book reviews
The few articles I read were quite entertaining, and left me feeling quite virtuous. I would never do such things, would I?
reviewed The Importance of Being Famous : Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industial Complex on + 216 more book reviews
This book was a collection of articles about famous figures (including Vladmir Putin, Ariana Huffington, Lacey Peterson and many others) and the author's analysis of the "celebrity industrial complex," her ideas on how celebrities are created and perpetuate their images. I loved reading the articles.


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