Hollywood, Interrupted - Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW BREITBART has played the low-key online sidekick to Matt Drudge on the infamous Drudge Report for six years and is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNBC's Dennis Miller show, and talk radio. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Human events, and the New York Post, among others, and he has worked as a researcher for Arianna Huffington. MARK EBNER is an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered all aspects of celebrity culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Details, Los Angeles magazine, Premiere, Salon, Spin, and New Times, among others. He has produced for and/or appeared as a journalist-commentator on NBC, FOX, MSNBC, A&E, FX, Court TV, and E! Entertainment Television. Ebner is currently serving as staff reporter for American Media, Inc. Klappentext Praise for Hollywood, Interrupted "This is a fun book!" --Jon Stewart, The Daily Show "This is a great book to read and a dangerous book to write. Breitbart and Ebner can hide in my basement when the Powers that Be in Hollywood put out a contract on them." --Jonah Goldberg, National Review "One of America's greatest industries has become one of the most destructive. Hollywood, Interrupted describes the misogynist, pill-popping degenerates who now define American culture." --Ann Coulter, bestselling author "Half Hollywood Babylon III, half Book of Virtues, Breitbart and Ebner's juicy polemic does for Hollywood celebrities what Liar's Poker did for Wall Street investment bankers." --Mickey Kaus, Slate magazine columnist "Hollywood is worse than you ever imagined, and Hollywood, Interrupted pulls no punches. It would be depressing, if it weren't so hilarious." --Prof. Glenn Reynolds, InstaPundit.com Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee Zusammenfassung Hollywood! Interrupted is a sometimes frightening! occasionally sad! and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology! the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts! and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR. 1. Hollywood Family Values: A New Weird Order. Hollywood families exposed for not only not upholding family values but pissing all over middle-class mores. Rethinking the life and death of River Phoenix. Familial implosions exposed. It's gotten so bad we argue for sterilization of the celebrity class. 2. In Loco Parentis: Hollywood Nannies. Hollywood nannies speak out and tell all-"There is no laughter in this house." Nannies so stressed they've formed a Beverly Hills support group. A nanny gets blacklisted. 3. Hollyweird High. Inside Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences, where Hollywood elite send their children, and we find, like any other school in the Western world, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Unlike other high schools, we also discover Crossdressing Day, Ménage à Prom, death, and a mandatory pseudo-therapeutic program called "Mysteries." PART II: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LOS ANGELES. 4. Screwball Tragedy. Hollywood's strange history with insanity, drugs, and therapy. 5. Doctor Feelgoods. Not feeling so hot? Call the doctor. Top Gun producer overdoses. Winona's Dr. Feelgood loses his license. Oliver Stone signs a medic. Lily-livered Hollywood "heppers," including Stripperella, try anything. 6. From Rehab to Retox. Rehab centers to the stars get visits from Matthew Perry, Robert Downey Jr., Ben Affleck, among others. Celeb rehab spas offer a panoply of treatment programs from equine therapy to brain wave analysis. Not on the menu-sex in the bathroom. PART III: THE BELIEVERS. 7. Karma Chameleons. Madonna and friends converge on Kabbalah. Hollywood cults run ...

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• Authors: a Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Ebner Breitbart, Mark Ebner, Mark Breitbart Ebner
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2005
• EAN: 9780471706243
• ISBN: 978-0-471-70624-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries