Snapper....Confessions of a News of the World Photographer
Snapper....Confessions of a News of the World Photographer

Author: Paul Barker

Publisher: Autharium

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1780255543

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The day that the closure of the News of the World was announced, will forever be regarded as the saddest in the entire history of journalism. Paul Barker was one of the handful of freelance photographers used on a full time basis by the paper, so when it came, the news was a devastating bombshell. After over 20 years working as a photojournalist, with 12 of those on the News of the World, he has been uniquely placed to give an insight into what it was like to work on a Sunday tabloid. From photography tips, to getting into events without a pass, 'Snapper' provides a fantastic, and highly amusing, window into the world of a national newspaper photographer. Rather than an expose into the phone hacking scandal that finally engulfed the paper, Snapper...Confessions of a News of the World Photographer, is a celebration of some of its finest moments. Recounted in a personal and engaging style, it is a series of often hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking anecdotes. It chronicles some of the best known, as well as some of the more obscure stories, covered by what many have come to regard as the world’s greatest newspaper.

Entertainment Journalism
Entertainment Journalism

Author: Ben Falk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1317233247

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Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years’ experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include: breaking a story interviewing techniques working at press junkets and red carpet events working with PRs selling as a freelance using social media for reporting and networking breaking into the industry. With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this is an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist.

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut

Author: Paul Krassner

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1593765037

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Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, “father of the underground press” (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, “Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked—but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the sixties.”

Confessions of a Soup Nazi
Confessions of a Soup Nazi

Author: Larry Thomas

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 150351532X

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"This entertaining autobiography/cook book will take you through the life of a dedicated actor who became an "overnight success" after 15 years... overnight being 15 years."--Page 4 of cover.

Confessions of a Model Agent
Confessions of a Model Agent

Author: Phil Green

Publisher: Phil Green

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1720851158

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After applying for his agency licence in 1987, lawyer and part time DJ/Presenter Phil Green founded the "Supermodel Agency". This autobiography contains personal confessions of astonishing stories and events he has encountered over the last 30 years while running the agency. Revealing all about the glamorous parties; the fame and fortune of the Supermodel girls; dating an internationally famous model, a Paris liaison with a Hollywood star; working with a Spice Girl; filming with Stanley Kubrick; hanging out with a world famous rock band, to the career implosions of drug taking models - this book really does contain ...sex, drugs and rock and roll. Learn the truth about glamour modelling, from Page 3, cover shoots, working on prime time TV game shows and the many eventful photo trips abroad - to the more deeply worrying issues within the agency relating to suicide, kidnapping and insecurity.

Confessions of a Hollywood Insider
Confessions of a Hollywood Insider

Author: Sandro Monetti

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2021-04-07

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781098357917

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An inside view on the real face of Hollywood from a multi-award winning British entertainment reporter in L.A. who has interviewed all the icons. Ryff presents this hardback edition of Sandro Monetti's hit compendium of amusing celebrity tales.

The Smile on the Face of the Pig
The Smile on the Face of the Pig

Author: John Bull

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1909183113

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1950s Britain - when life was great if you had the guts to live it. Murder, lurid courtroom dramas, gypsy horse fairs, eccentric admirals, child brides, and falling in love - it's all in a day's work for cub reporter John Bull. Meet a cast of characters - from the parish clerk who dresses like a French resistance fighter, complete with rifle over her shoulder, to the medium whose spirit guide (her soldier boyfriend killed in World War II) gets in touch by pinging her suspender belt. The Smile on the Face of the Pig is a cheeky exposé of life in the 1950s: crazy nights at the theatre with the old-time music-hall stars, skinny-dipping by starlight, drinking with the freebooting river-folk, and riding through the freezing night on a BSA motorbike chasing the Big Scoop that will carry him to Fleet Street, fame and fortune.

Confessions of an Almost Movie Star
Confessions of an Almost Movie Star

Author: Mary Kennedy

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780425204672

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Having unexpectedly landed a role in a movie being shot at her high school, Jessie discovers that movie stars and the film industry are not as glamorous as she once thought.

Can't Help Myself
Can't Help Myself

Author: Meredith Goldstein

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1455543780

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A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you're not sure what you're doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Globe's Love Letters column. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated readers. They look to her for wisdom on all matters of the heart- how to cope with dating fatigue and infidelity, work romances, tired marriages, true love, and true loss. In her column, she has it all figured out, but in her real life she is a lot less certain. Whether it's her own reservations about the traditional path of marriage and family, her difficulty finding someone she truly connects with, or the evolution of her friendships as her friends start to have their own families, Meredith finds herself looking for insight, just like her readers. As she searches for responses to their concerns, she's surprised to discover answers to her own. But it's after her mother is diagnosed with cancer that she truly realizes how special her Love Letters community is, how this column has enriched her life as much, if not more than, it has for its readers. Can't Help Myself is the extraordinary (and often hilarious) story of a single woman navigating her mercurial love life, and a moving and poignant portrait of an amazing community of big-hearted, love-seeking allies.