Hollywood Confidential

Hollywood Confidential
Author: Ted Schwarz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 149307749X

Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan and his union backers. The revelations continue into the 1980s when the major studios were no longer important, the independents were on the rise, and it was no longer possible to buy, bribe, or blackmail in a meaningful way. There were deals and bad guys, but the mob as it existed was finished in Hollywood.

Confidential Confidential

Confidential Confidential
Author: Samantha Barbas
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0912777567

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the bestselling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Eventually the stars fought back, filing multimillion-dollar libel suits against the magazine. The state of California, prodded by the film studios, prosecuted Harrison for obscenity and criminal libel, culminating in a famous, star-studded Los Angeles trial. This is Confidential's story, detailing how the magazine revolutionized celebrity culture and American society in the 1950s and beyond. With its bold red-yellow-and-blue covers, screaming headlines, and tawdry stories, Confidential exploded the candy-coated image of movie stars that Hollywood and the press had sold to the public. It transformed Americas from innocents to more sophisticated, worldly people, wise to the phony and constructed nature of celebrity. It shifted reporting on celebrities from an enterprise of concealment and make-believe to one that was more frank, bawdy, and true. Confidential's success marked the end of an era of hush-hush—of secrets, closets, and sexual taboos—and the beginning of our age of tell-all exposure.

L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455528749

L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors. (124,000 words)

Hollywood Confidential

Hollywood Confidential
Author: Dan Moldea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692383407

In May 2003, I became involved in a doomed book project with reporter Anita Busch about the federal investigations of Los Angeles private detective Anthony Pellicano, the "Sleuth to the Stars," who had targeted Busch, among others. Directly or indirectly, usually working through a group of prominent Los Angeles attorneys, Pellicano had represented a wide variety of Hollywood celebrities, including actresses Rosanne Barr, Farrah Fawcett, and Elizabeth Taylor; actors Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, and James Woods; corporate executives Brad Grey, Kirk Kerkorian, Michael Nathanson, Michael Ovitz, and Don Simpson, as well as Michael Jackson, George Harrison of The Beatles, and television personality Jerry Springer, among many others. My two years of "volunteer" work with Busch serves as a testament to the old adage, "No good deed goes unpunished." In fact, the fallout from this experience, especially Busch's thirteen-year smear campaign against me, continues to this day-even after Pellicano's convictions in 2008 for conspiracy and racketeering. . . . I have described this situation to friends and colleagues as "The Book Project from Hell." Hollywood Confidential is a true story about friendship and betrayal, as well as loyalty and greed-along with an offbeat new dimension to what is known about one of Hollywood's most-publicized scandals: the federal prosecution of Anthony Pellicano and his illegal wiretapping activities.

Confidential

Confidential
Author: Meir Doron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Businessmen
ISBN: 9780615433813

Describes the life of the Hollywood personality who led a double life as a spy for Israel involved in secret negotiations for that country's nuclear arsenal while he was working as a Hollywood producer for high-profile movies.

Tab Hunter Confidential

Tab Hunter Confidential
Author: Tab Hunter
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1565125487

A 1950s matinee screen idol speaks about the scandals, successes, and sacrifices he experienced as the pin-up boy for millions of teenage girls and how he dealt with the reality of hiding his homosexuality. Reprint.

Hollywood Confidential

Hollywood Confidential
Author: Coral Amende
Publisher: Plume Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 9780452277915

Tinseltown has always been the mecca for image and ego, the Babylon of outlandish wealth and outrageous acts. Now, "Hollywood Confidential" dishes out the dirt on all of our favorites, from Demi, Sharon, and Arnold to Quentin, Keanu, and Winona, including a detailed graph of "just-who-had-which-plastic-surgery". Photos.

Palm Springs Confidential

Palm Springs Confidential
Author: Howard Johns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781569802694

A star-studded guided tour of Palm Springs, California, where some of Hollywood's best-loved movie stars have lived and died. It lifts the lid on the secret lives of the rich and famous individuals who have resided in this world-renowned tourist resort during the last century.

Mr. Confidential

Mr. Confidential
Author: Samuel Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Confidential (Hollywood, CA).
ISBN: 9780978767129

Liz Smith says it best in her advance praise: "SEX, SCANDAL and sensationalism. Libel suits and humiliations. Idols with feet of clay. Think it's anything new? Not at all. Slip into the compulsively lurid and exhaustively researched pages of 'Mr. Confidential' which tells the tale of publisher Robert Harrison and his magazine, Confidential. That forerunner of celebrity dirt quite literally changed the face of entertainment journalism. It reads like a house afire in a sultry swamp. Nobody did 'down and dirty' like Mr. Harrison and today's beleaguered stars, politicians and others owe him a sock in the jaw. An illuminating, fun read!"