Author : Stanley Jackson
Publisher : Ecademy Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1907722483
"Get Me A Celebrity!" is Stanley Jackson's hilarious account of famous personalities from the world of sport, show business, politics and the media generating extra income for themselves in the corporate market. Stanley lifts the veil on this little known area of celebrity activity. The book also examines the crucial role of TV in creating celebrities, the use of agents and a host of contentious issues from political correctness to the perceived impartiality of the BBC.
Author : Trevor Baker
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : I'm a celebrity, get me out of here! (Television program)
ISBN : 9780233000008
For 19 days and nights in April 2003, 9 celebrities swapped their lavish lifestyles for an eye-opening experience in one of the world's most inhospitable climates. With basic rations of rice and water, a hammock for a bed in a jungle clearing, and neighbors of venomous snakes and deadly spiders, the celebrities had to fend for themselves. Witty, gossipy and compulsive, this book will take viewers behind the scenes on the most talked-about show of the year, and reveal who really thought what about whom, why, how and when.
Author : Su Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1135653712
Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.
Author : S. D. Burke
Publisher : Doodleface Publishing
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781735215723
Spider thinks he is a celebrity. Why you ask? Because if anyone sees him, they scream with "delight." This charming tale shows that your perspective on life, no matter how misconstrued, can keep you confident in any situation.
Author : Jo Piazza
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1453205519
From $10,000 tweets to making money in the afterlife, a recovering gossip columnist explores the business lessons that power the Hollywood Industrial Complex Why do celebrities get paid so much more than regular people to do a job that seems to afford them the same amount of leisure time as most retirees? What do Bush-era economics have to do with the rise of Kim Kardashian? How do the laws of supply and demand explain why the stars of Teen Mom are on the cover of Us Weekly? And how was the sale of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby pictures a little like a street drug deal? After a decade spent toiling as an entertainment journalist and gossip columnist, Jo Piazza asks the hard questions about the business behind celebrity. Make no mistake: Celebrity is an industry. Never in the course of human history has the market for celebrities been as saturated as it is today. Nearly every day most Americans will consume something a celebrity is selling—a fragrance, a sneaker, a song, a movie, a show, a tweet, or a photo in a magazine. With the benefits of Piazza’s unique access to the celebrity market, Celebrity, Inc. explains in detail what generates cash for the industry and what drains value faster than a starlet downs champagne—in twelve fascinating case studies that tackle celebrities the way industry analysts would dissect any consumer brand.
Author : Donnell Alexander
Publisher : Crown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Donnell Alexander grew up sideways in the cramped spaces of Sandusky, Ohio, the son of a devout mother and a dad named Delbert, a protean genius who jacked a thousand identities—from pimpin’ them hoes to preaching the gospel—but skipped out on fatherhood when his son was in diapers. Donnell unwittingly replayed Delbert’s tragedy as farce until he finally wrote himself his own story, becoming a star of California’s freewheeling alternative press, spreading the gospels of punk and hip-hop in print. After finding a career and starting a family of his own, Donnell was drawn to reconnect with the vanished Delbert, and when he did, things fell apart, as they tend to in the grip of ghetto celebrity. Told in multiple voices, freestyle raps, and a graphic interlude, this is the riotous story of one writer’s mission to find truth in the margins and an engrossing tale about phantom fathers and the sons they leave behind.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2014
Category : I'm a celebrity, get me out of here (Television program)
ISBN :
"Have you ever wondered how the Bushtucker Trial is dreamed up? Or what Ant and Dec's daily routine is when they are filming the show? ... Packed with behind-the-scenes secrets and ... photos from the [British version of] the show ... You'll hear from the stars who have called the jungle their home, meet the people who make it all happen and get the juiciest gossip from thirteen unforgettable series"--Publisher's description.
Author : Dom Joly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1847377920
'Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions which have real or recreated death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme' Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. And in this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey and so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, picnics in the Syrian Desert with a trigger-happy government minder and fires rocket propelled grenades at live cows in Cambodia (he missed on purpose, he just couldn't do it). Funny and frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre and compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless and innovative comedians around.
Author : Julia Morris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1460713222
Hilariously half-baked life advice from yet another deluded celebrity Welcome to Julia Morris's immaculately conceived EASY system: a crackpot satire on celebrity self-help culture. Julia will help you figure out the stuff you don't need to do, cut down on the crapola you've decided you don't want to do, make the stuff you absolutely have to do a breeze - and ensure you enjoy the whole lot. Brace yourself for a deluge of slacker life hacks, nice-but-not-very-bright advice and life-changing inspiration on: Making It All About You Getting Shallow The Importance of Always Proving Your Point The Joy of Ex-cuses Achieving Blind Self-confidence How to (Not) Get Shit Done Judging Others The Power of Negative Thinking The Zero Habits of Highly Ineffective People How to Say Yes, Then Cancel Complaining and Comsplaining Disclaimer: if you think this book is going to be like other celebrity self-help books, think again
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Bantam Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : I'm a celebrity, get me out of here (Television program)
ISBN : 9780593073483
Celebrities roughing it in the jungle, sleeping in hammocks, subsisting on a diet of rice and beans and being forced to face all manner of gruesome challenges in order to win food and supplies. It can only be I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Presented by the inimitable Ant and Dec, I'm A Celebrity ... has become part of our nation's fabric. Every winter, for three unmissable weeks, it brightens our television screens and dominates the press, social media chatter and gossip in schools, offices and homes up and down the land. Here, at last, is the book that fans of the show have been waiting for. It will reveal a feast of behind-the-scenes secrets and is packed with everything viewers could ask for, including: the untold story behind the show; a look at the best - and worst - Bushtucker Trials, plus a mountain of fascinating facts and jungle trivia. Guiding you around this cornucopia of jungle treats will be Brucey the Cockroach, a critter who's been with the show right from the start and dumped on the head of everyone from pop stars to politicians. Lavishly produced, stunningly designed and delivered with its tongue firmly in its cheek, I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! The Inside Story is a must-have for any fan of the show.
