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

These are some of the reasons why Hollywood's misbehaving stars do what they do, but over the past few years, their stories have become so outrageous that it's hard to tell what they're actually thinking-if they're thinking at all! In this entertainment industry expose, Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner pull back the curtain to reveal the twisted culture of Hollywood and the preposterous penchants of today's high-profile celebrities. From John T, Tom Cruise, and Ann Heche to Eddie Murphy, Oliver Stone, and Courtney Love, Hollywood, Interrupted presents the mind-altered behavior of the most reality-challenged celebrities from all walks of life and every genre. Hollywood, Interrupted explores how the pathological behavior of celebrities has destroyed comedy, snuffed relationships, and demeaned family values. Each chapter delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude-heavy dispatch-which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by celebrities and their way-too-protective handlers. You'll enter a world where: Celebrities and Hollywood power players engage in "cyber," "off-line" sex and subterfuge with a young America Online customer service agent "Young Hollywood" swing clubs and "porno-tainment" become mainstream diversions Statutory rapist Roman Polanski can win a Best Director Oscar, but can't collect it because of the criminal conviction against him in the United States Some of the most famous stars send their children to an elite high school with a curriculum that includes extracurricular cross-dressing and a mandatory pseudo-therapeutic program called "Mysteries" Celebrity nannies get so stressed they've formed a Beverly Hills support group Mathew Perry, Robert Downwy Jr., and Ben Affleck, among others, vacation atarm's "five star" rehab resort centers Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss can emerge from prison a born-again celebrity, ready to cash in

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Title of ebook: Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity
ISBN: 9780471661894
parent-ISBN: 9780471450511
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 1867 kb
Published: 03-2004
Released online for download: 03-01-2004
Author of eBook: Breitbart, Andrew
Joint Author: Ebner, Mark

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Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity

Chapter One

HOLLYWOOD FAMILY VALUES

A New Weird Order

Leggo My Ego!

Why do Hollywood stars, the most attractive, admired, and highly compensated citizens of the world, have families more screwed up than even the notoriety-driven mongrels loitering around the green room at the Jerry Springer show?

The short answer is ego. Insatiable ego. Constantly massaged ego. 24-hour-a-day concierge ego. 400-thread-count linen at the five-star luxury dog kennel ego. Trading in your prefame spouse for a world-class model ego.

Ego. Ego. Ego.

For every celebrity, by design and necessity, is a narcissist. The desire to become a star requires an incredible appetite for attention and approval. To achieve fame and its accoutrements takes laser-like focus, and a nearly commendable ability to stay self-centered in the service of the dream. Maintaining celebrity is a 24-hour-a-day process requiring a full-time staff to solidify the star's place at the top of the soci ... read full excerpt from Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity ebook

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	Republican agenda? 03/17/2006
Reviewer: A viewer from Australia
Whilst I do not subscribe to the current 'cult of celebrity' and detest the fuss and adulation that surrounds them, Ebner and Beitbart lost me in their comments and support for Fox News. In Australia we can get Fox News via Foxtel and Austar. Fox News has to be the most shamefully manipulative, pro-republican, 'if you do not agree with us you are a terrorist supporting unpatriotic citizen' propaganda masquerading as a News Channel. My opinion after reading Hollywood, Interrupted was that the Republican party hired Ebner and Breitbart to write this book.
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