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Volume 1 of 3-volume set includes studies of nude men and women in remarkable stopped-action photographs by pioneering master photographer. Essential for artists, animators, photographers, cinematographers, anyone interested in the mechanics of people in motion.
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fantastic book, but no animals..........2003-02-27
if you are interested in clear depictions of humans in motion,
it is interesting that the absolute best work on the subject comes from the late 1800s. If you are interested in animal locomotion, get another book. I am assuming that the other 2 volumes will someday become available, making this a true "complete" study.
perhaps someone will update Muybridges work in the interim.
Motion Broken Down.......2000-03-28
As an artist and beginning animator, I have found Muybridge's motion studies to be helpful in understanding how the body travels in time (animals and machines too) using time-lapse photography. This book remains current and comprehensive especially in light of the current digital revolution's emphasis on special effects and eye candy. Muybridge's work is important because it goes to the roots of motion and reveals its simplicity and beauty. I highly recommend this fascinating book for those with curious minds.
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Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds, he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions, scents, caresses, pleasures, horrors, and fantastic atrocities. The Torture Garden is exceptional for its detailed descriptions of sexual euphoria and exquisite torture, its political critique of government corruption and bureaucracy, and its revolutionary portrait of a woman - which challenges even contemporary models of feminine authority. This is one of the most truly original works ever imagined. Beyond providing richly poetic experience, it will stimulate anyone interested in the always-contemporary problem of the limits of experience and sensation. As part of the continuing struggle against censorship and especially self-censorship, it will remain a landmark in the fight against all that would suppress the creation of a far freer world. Written in 1899, this fabulously rare novel was once described as "the most sickening work of art of the 19th century."
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Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds, he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions, scents, caresses, pleasures, horrors, and fantastic atrocities. The Torture Garden is exceptional for its detailed descriptions of sexual euphoria and exquisite torture, its political critique of government corruption and bureaucracy, and its revolutionary portrait of a woman - which challenges even contemporary models of feminine authority. This is one of the most truly original works ever imagined. Beyond providing richly poetic experience, it will stimulate anyone interested in the always-contemporary problem of the limits of experience and sensation. As part of the continuing struggle against censorship and especially self-censorship, it will remain a landmark in the fight against all that would suppress the creation of a far freer world. Written in 1899, this fabulously rare novel was once described as "the most sickening work of art of the 19th century."
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A Profound Masterpiece ..........2007-06-11
The story opens with a select group of elitist swine sitting down to a fancy supper. Many banal topics of conversation are broached with levity and mocking sarcasm, until the topic of murder comes up. Specifically, murder as an innate biological human need, much like procreation. I liked where this book was heading...
Our protagonist fancies himself a most vile and debauched jack-of-all-trades; actually, he is more of an imposter of all trades, and liar extraordinaire. However, while on a steam ship, en route to his next great scheme, he meets his match in Clara. A deep love blossoms between them, and our protagonist's heart, weakened by her purity and chastity, falls prey to her charms. But Clara is not as she appears, the chaste little cherry blossom, no, no, Clara can be likened to a great degree to Venus, in Masoch's Venus in Furs. So, mad, stricken with love, our protagonist confesses the sins of his life to Clara, and she comforts him, assuring him that his confession has not diminished her love for him. Subsequently, she, with the skill of a serpent, leads him astray into her world, a world where he will not only question the depth and breadth of his own depravity but his sanity as well. For Clara's soul is as black and consuming as a tar pit.
Political intrigue and hypocrisy abound, not to mention the ever-prevalent scathing view of humanity and its coarse, ignorant brutality, motivated by dogma and prejudice. And then there is the Garden...inspired by the ethereal beauty, our protagonist at this point in the story becomes quite poetic. The words are rich and romantic, and they mirror the duality of the story - the duality of mankind - the heavenly garden juxtaposed against an artistic milieu of horrific torture. Why is it that we cannot see the beauty of the world until we are stripped naked, face down at the bottom of the abyss with our heads shoved in our own bile? Maybe this story will shed some light.
As I mentioned, this is not the best presentation of the work, but, if you can get past the frustration of formatting issues and endless typos and grammatical errors, this is a story not to be missed, simply for its profound view on the brutal nature of humanity. Warning - the torture depicted in this book is quite gruesome, by 1899 standards anyway. Today's Saw and Hostel hack-and-slash movie generation will more than likely find it rather mild.
A Masterpiece of Black Humor and Philosophy.......2007-05-12
In little more than a century since its initial publication, this book has become even more horrifically relevent and pointed. Mirbeau's juxtapositions of beauty and horror keep the reader unsettled, but also support a philosophical rumination on the industrialization of warfare and violence, contrasted against the exquisite artistry of torture practiced in the lush, gorgeous garden of a Chinese bagnio. The casually inflicted horrors of modern warfare (which have increased a thousandfold since this work was penned) may very well be, as the author seems to assert, much more barbaric than the intimate agonies of torture practiced as an art. Those seeking pornographic diversion and other casual readers will be disappointed by the depth of this work and the ghastliness of its transgressions. With tortuous skill, Mirbeau peels back layers of subject matter to expose hypocrisy that is even greater today.
As a work of black humor, The Torture Garden served as a supreme inspiration to the late Michael O'Donoghue, whose gallows wit delighted readers of National Lampoon Magazine and viewers of old school Saturday Night Live. I have never read another novel remotely like this and can't recommend it highly enough to connoisseurs of subversive, visionary literature. This is not a book for the squeamish or those whose attention span has been crippled by mass media. This is a profound meditation on the nature of violence and beauty, as well as a castigation of the casual, disconnected mass-murder that has come to typify modern warfare. I would recommend the RE:search Press edition of this work for its careful editing and thoughtful illustrations.
This particular edition is full of errors, find a better version........2007-01-28
Aside from the topic of the book, this particular edition ('The New Traveller's Companion,' violent green cover), was riddled with grammatical errors, typographical errors. Don't buy this one, find another version.
As for the book, I was rivetted! But I like intense literature. I suppose this book is the most alarming thing I've read, but it contains insight into human existence, misanthropic and aesthetic. If you can face work like Lautreamont, Bataille, Ryu Murakami, or even films like Salo, it's for you. I would not recommend it to many people, though, particularly because its effectiveness is deeply conceptual. It uses various metaphors to equate typical opposites, love and death, good and evil, man and woman, into the same decadent event of life.
The heart of the matter.......2005-12-13
I deleted my previous review. First of all, I think it was too biased in favor of The Torture Garden when I have not even read that as intently or as intelligently as possible. This is because I obtained not the paperback, but the HTML form of the book, making it difficult for me to read intently and consistently, not to mention being distracted by the blinding radiation emanating from the monitor.
Yet amidst all these hardships, I read TTG within the span of only six hours, a very fast time considering the rests I had because of my teary eyes. I also read it in a short time because I decided to finish the novel within a single day to prevent further damage to my eyes.
Let me make things clear, though: first, it really was a page-turner, though I don't know if web pages have page-numbers; second, it was perverse. Yet in many depraved and sordid ideas lie the heart of the matter which is truth.This novel had a multitude of truth in it, albeit dark and depressing.
Mirbeau does not play around. At the first chapter the characters already talk about murder. Does it disturb? Definitely. Even with the speedy reading I was still disquieted by the truths that it exposed and professed. What is all the more disturbing as the novel proceeds, amidst its decadence and darkness, is the truth revealed that society is only a veiled form of evil. It simply is an organized form of chaos. What makes it even worse is that the destruction is not of the body, but of the soul, and it is not pronounced, but is insidious.
I can't say it's amazing though. I've read Of Mice and Men in a speedy binge, but it still had a greater effect on me. It definitely reflects truth, it definitely doesn't lie, but I think I was wrong to have given it five stars, or even four. A re-read would fix this up, though.
Henry does Dallas.......2005-05-12
Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden (RE/Search, 1899)
A new edition of a nineteenth-century classic of decadence is usually a good thing, right? The problem being that nineteenth-century classics of decadence often end up reading more like Henry James-- in his long-winded later years-- than actual decadence. The Torture Garden is redeemed in this respect only by being shorter than most.
While it cannot be argued that, along with its brevity, The Torture Garden was certainly one of the most explicit books of its time, that time is long past, and one has to ask the question of whether the book has any relevance at all to the modern reader. In most cases, the answer will be no. Today, The Torture Garden is going to appeal to an extremely select group of people-- those who both hunger for the explicit and have enough tolerance for the diction of nineteenth-century writing to be able to get the explicitness out of it.
Somewhere along the way during the twentieth century, fiction got a lot less heavy on the description and replaced what was missing with an emphasis on plot. Now, normally I'm the first person to rush into the breach, screaming about how awful an idea this usually is. It leads to things like Danielle Steel selling uncounted millions of novels that are not, one presumes, being used for their most appropriate purposes (e.g., lining cat pans). However, the parallel to this is that there had to be some sort of previous description-heavy movement, and it had to lead somewhere decadent enough that the literati felt the need to rebel against it. The previous remark about Henry James in his later years is quite an excellent example of where it had led-- bloated, flowery books that weren't really about anything, in any meaningful sense of the word. The Torture Garden is one of these, minus (thankfully) some of the bloat, and literally flowery. There is much breast-beating, a good deal of horror (in the beginning, anyway) at the thought of women showing their ankles in public, the common trope of a faraway country (in this case, China) being picked as a setting because no one really knew all that much about it, and a whole lot of description, but underneath, there's really nothing at all. Worse, Mirbeau seems to have decided to ignore such things as continuity (contrast, for example, the endless, intensely boring frame at the beginning of the novel with its final page, and wonder how the narrator got from point B to point A). To the reader of the modern pornographic novel, this will not be new. In fact, it's a mark that's branded the cheap, low-quality pornographic novel... well, seemingly at least since the turn of the twentieth century. **
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- Bitter Fruit indeed
- Happy Halloween in Hell!
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Torture Garden: A Photographic Archive of the New Flesh (Torture Garden)
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The best-selling fetish photography collection, with over 350 original photographs and over 50 colour plates, a complete guide to the New Flesh.
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Bitter Fruit indeed.......2002-05-27
From virginal Eden to lascivious lavatory, this frightening photo-document exposes the moral corruption in its most vivid form. Consider yourselves warned!
Happy Halloween in Hell!.......2000-04-01
"Long live the new flesh!" This quote from David Cronenberg's cinematic playground of perversion, Videodrome, announces the theme of Torture Garden, the inimitable London nightclub established in 1990. We are not allowed to categorize it as simply a fetish club, because it is "multi-dimensional, ever evolving and mutating." One way to get a handle is to peruse the strict dress code on its website. Your look better be: burlesque, fantasy, theatrical, period costume, glamour, drag, alien, cyborg, cabaret, mutation, cybersex, fetish, SM, body art, rubber, leather, PVC, or uniforms. Sounds like the East Village on a Saturday night.
You take the Angel Tube to get to the current site of Torture Garden's monthly parties. You really do. These partygoers don't engage in much actual BDSM play, although there is some walkabout bondage. It's mainly a Stand and Model venue, a nightclub/dance scene. There's no room to swing a cane anyway. There's a floor show by some of the top out-there acts in the world. There are performance photos here of (among others) Miranda Sex Garden, the Genitorturers, Ron Athey, Medieval Magick, and Angel Grinders & Chainsaws, who use industrial equipment to send fountains of sparks gushing from the groins of troupe members.
The production package of Torture Garden, the book, is superb. Chaplin's candids capture the feverish ecstasy of a world where nothing is true and everything is permitted. They are brilliantly grouped and sequenced. Sivroni's mostly larger format portraits bring you face to face with folk in costumes far beyond fabulous, exuding the potency of their homemade personas. The Videodrome quote above is one of many at the bottom of every page. These provide a quick, painless introduction to the TG philosophy. A few favorites:
"...sadomasochism enjoys all the forms of religious piety - kneeling, praying, worshipping, sacrificing, invoking and punishing." -- Terence Sellers, The Correct Sadist
"The first duty of man is to become artificial." -- Oscar Wilde
"The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber." -- Charles Levin, Body Invaders
"It's your body, play with it." -- Fakir Musafar, Modern Primitives
"Your body is a battleground." -- Barbara Kruger
At Torture Garden, the concept of costume is raised to extremes of creative imagination, transcendent otherness and disgusting repulsion. By the time you get through this volume, your own definitions of these categories will have been severely mangled. On one night a performer named Franko paraded through the crowd on crutches, accompanied by a nurse. He was nude except for syringes, catheters, rubber tubes and various medical receptacles containing various bodily fluids. On the same night, completely independently, a female partygoer appeared wearing a brassiere consisting of two plasma bags filling with her own blood.
One man's features are covered by a remarkably lifelike effect of the flesh of his face pulled back and nailed to his skull. Hellraiser-style pinheads abound. Crazed male ballerinas, harem girls, rubber boys, sirens, harpies, transvestites, androgynes, hermaphrodites, naughty nurses, naughty nuns, naughty Nazis, welder's goggles, gas masks, catcher's masks, nine-inch nails, helmets, horns, spikes, wounds, rings through everything and to top it off, a spitting-image Laurel and Hardy. Happy Halloween in Hell!
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- outer limits
- Blurring the lines between body, mind, and machine
- not for the average customer
- A Radical Exploration of the Body
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Body Probe : Torture Garden 2 - Mutant Flesh and Cyber Primitives
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The Torture Garden follows up its first, club-based book with the sequel Body Probe, an anthology of interviews, features and images exploring the boundaries of the human body at the edge of the new millennium.
Contents include: David Cronenberg, Hermann Nitsch, Chapman Brothers, Orlan, Stelarc, Ron Athey, Della Grace, Nick Knight, Alex Binnie, plus alien abduction, sex in space, medical fetishism, robot art, mutation in fashion, self-made freaks, the cybernetic body and S/M art.
Body Probe confirms the Torture Garden's position at the cutting edge of the fetish, body art, and cyber technology scene. It contains over 100 black and white photographs, and over 50 full-colour plates.
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outer limits.......2004-04-27
a uniquely mind-opening work that deftly explores the "cutting edge" of severe anatomical explorations.
A forbidden work that surely upsets conservatives everywhere.
Blurring the lines between body, mind, and machine.......2001-04-23
This book contains interviews, essays, and art from some of the most cutting edge body artists, authors, and fringe culture critics from around the world. Stelarc, Franko B, Ron Athey, and Orlan all give their take on why they do what they do. Sex, cyborgs, freaks, and the eroticism of destruction are all examined. This is a book for those who think without boundaries. Only a few selections which drag or seem out of place keep this from being a 5 star work. For more content like this, also refer to 'Suture : The Arts Journal', edited by Jack Sargeant (also a contributor to this work).
not for the average customer.......2000-12-27
"Body Probe" goes beyond grotesque. This isn't about mere critiques of Stelarc's, Orlan's or Marina Abramovic's work. This isn't a book for the kind of people who'd wonder whether this is art or not, this isn't a book for the average reader. You have to seriously consider the human body as the most complex and beautiful art subject to enjoy this. You have to believe that the mutant flesh is about to become the next trend. After reading "Body Probe", you'll be sure the cyber culture is here for good and it has the most intimate ralationship with the flesh, an aesthetic revolution that has no turning back.
A Radical Exploration of the Body.......2000-06-02
Body Probe is an amazing collection of interviews and essays of radical performance art, s & m culture, cyborgs, and the films of David Cronenberg, among many other interesting things. The color and b/w pictures are well arranged. Stand-out features of the book include an interview with Mark van Saper, a leading fetish clothing designer, and an intriguing essay about sex in space, which includes some David Bowie lyrics. For those who dare to venture to the boundaries of free expression and the use of the body as an art form, then this book is highly recommended.
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The garden of tortures;
Octave Mirbeau
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Torture Garden
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Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
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Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
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Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
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Yuppies, Rednecks and Lesbian Bitches from Mars
Goulet , and
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It's exactly what the title implies - good, "b-movie" trashy fun!
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28 page adult comic book with B&W illustrations.
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The former editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer tells all in this no-holds-barred account of the most infamous tabloid in America. Over a career that spanned four decades, Calder brought the lurid newspaper to new heights, dramatically raising circulation by combining his streetwise journalist background with the financial genius of publisher Generoso Pope, Jr. With Calder at the helm, the National Enquirer ran the infamous shot of Gary Hart and Donna Rice and the record-breaking photo of Elvis in his coffin. And it was the New York Times that dubbed the National Enquirer 'the Bible' of the O.J. Simpson trial after reporters infiltrated O.J.'s inner circle. In this riveting memoir, Calder recreates the exhilaration of being at the Enquirer during its most extraordinary period and details the ways he and his staff broke the biggest exclusives of the day. He exposes the entertaining, edgy stories behind the most famous headlines and cover photos, featuring such celebrity icons as Elvis, Roseanne, Oprah, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Carson, Rock Hudson, Liberace, Bill Cosby, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Trump, and many, many others. The result is a fascinating, often shocking glimpse at the evolution of an American pop-culture institution.
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More enjoyable than the Enquirer itself.......2005-09-21
The title caught my eye, and although there are no sensational exposes revealed (as other critics have also noted), it was eye-opening for someone like me who hadn't read the Enquirer and assumed it was still publishing articles about 3-breasted women with screaming headlines like "Headless body found in topless bar". So it was a shock to learn how seriously the Enquirer pursues real (not fabricated or fanciful) stories and how frequently it lands scoops that have been the envy of mainstream publications like the NYTimes. As editor, Calder frequently threw enormous resources at stories sending vast teams of reporters and photographers to cover notable events and outstripping in quantity and quality the journalistic talent of big city daily competitors. While building his case for a ranking atop the ranks of professional journalism, it is amusing and disappointing to find Calder listing among his "great" gets the 'news' (!) that Lisa Marie Presley was all of two months pregnant at one her weddings. But this is a mere quibble. Calder is immensely entertaining in his account of learning the trade as a youngster in the bruisingly competitive Scottish newspaper wars, and then, having crossed the pond, his ascent through the ranks to the leadership of the Enquirer, as well as the rise of investigative journalism applied to celebrities.
Stories that influenced the Enquirer's infamous reputation.......2004-09-03
The National Enquirer has a bad reputation that can never be overcome, and the magazine is proud of it. No one working for the Enquirer will ever win the Pulitzer Prize, whether he or she deserves it or not. The rag's rep is based on gore and gossip and ever more shall be.
That's from the horse's mouth. Iain Calder, a Scotsman who left school at 16 and was a millionaire by the time he got his pink slip from the Enquirer, spent twenty years in the traces, sniffing out some of the best stories the paper handled. His breeze-easy journalistic style makes this book a fun read, and the stories he turns over like moss-covered rocks will keep you giggling, even if you don't approve of the Enquirer's tactics.
Largely the brainchild of Generoso Pope, Jr., who was rumored to be seriously mobbed up, the Enquirer's flame burned brightest during his regime. Pope lived up to his name by his love of hard-luck stories and his personal generosity to many of the causes the paper championed. In those days the Enquirer was purple but personal, with small features including rags-to-riches sagas as well as tales of those who had made it big and were getting away from the rat race. Sick kids needing medical treatment was another favorite theme. All had perennial appeal to the housewives of America, and getting the paper on the racks at supermarkets was one of the biggest strategic breaks of Pope's dynamic career.
The Enquirer, while noted for its nasty photos of beheaded animals, ghastly human follies and bloody death, scooped more than poop. It was often the first with an important story (Jesse Jackson's love-child, Clinton's pardon of an errant brother-in-law and subsequent $200,000 kick-back) and its rivals never seemed ready for the rag's rough-and-tumble determination to be fustest with the mostest. When Princess Grace died in a tragic car crash, the Enquirer staff "bought" the gardener in whose yard the wreckage landed and held him hostage in his own home to keep him from talking to other papers. After a week the poor man got so stir-crazy that he took a rifle and shot a hole through his cottage roof. To be fair, they had offered him what they often handed out to other sources --- a holiday. The man was just too dumb to take it.
But then we have the seaman on board Aristotle Onassis's yacht who was easily bribed and blabbed about everything going on with Ari and Jackie. He even took photos and was sent back to Greece where his fiancée awaited, all on the Enquirer's tab. And the distant relative of Elvis who was paid surprisingly little money to take flash photos of the corpse as it lay in state at Graceland. There was an absolute ban on photos, but whatever the Enquirer wanted, it usually got.
The book is chock full of such stories, but Calder manages to keep his sources safe from detection, even now. The one major exception is Tom Arnold, who actually ratted on his bride-to-be, the famously profane comedienne Roseanne Barr, who had threatened to sue the paper for its outrageous stories of her and Tom. When an Enquirer staffer held up the canceled check signed by her inamorata on Geraldo Rivera's TV show, Roseanne was furious --- not so much at Arnold (whom she married anyway) but at the Enquirer operative, who was later sent a punch in the schnozz and a bouquet of flowers, compliments of the unsinkable Ms. Barr.
Calder praises, rather than buries, the Enquirer, so those expecting the worst may be disappointed. But even when only mellow yellow, the paper's scurrilous tactics and its staff's plucky antics make for a great read.
--- Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott
Great Read!!.......2004-08-31
I absolutely loved this book.
It was full of interesting stories of how the management of Enquirer and its reporters got scoops on hot stories, even before any mainstream media knew what was happening.
I have been reading the Enquirer since I was about 10 yrs old, which is when I saw the cover showing Elvis in his coffin. The story on how they got that picture is worth the price of the book alone. Great read for an Enquiring mind!
Iain Calder fired me! Great book ; buy it NOW!.......2004-08-28
Hundreds of Tabloid pros were fired by America's Most Feared Editor, Iain Calder - I was one of them. No matter, one simply should not bugger off AWOL to Egypt and not tell the boss!
Iain's fantastic romp down Tabloid Memory Lane took me back to many forgotten NATIONAL ENQUIRER escapades.
Yes, we carried $ thousands in cash, yes, we hired helicopters by the dozen, yes; we got the story before the local press even knew we were in town. Small wonder the "legitimate press" dubbed us the Foreign Legion of journalism. Poor scribes, they simply could not compete.
The ENQUIRER was also used in classrooms as an educational tool; we exposed Government waste, published happy pictures of our staff dog, Lucky, visiting big name stars; we published Rags to Riches stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
NE medical reporters were the best in the media - diets that really worked; we broke the World's First Test Tube Baby story, too.
An editor on the NE during those swashbuckler days, even I was unaware of many of the UNTOLD STORIES so vividly described in this five-star adventure yarn - Can't wait for the movie.
Kudos to Calder!
A tribute, not an expose.......2004-08-16
The Untold Story is a tribute to the people that made the National Enquirer a journalism trendsetter and one of best selling newspapers in the nation. Iain Calder, the former editor-in-chief of the Enquirer, has written the biography of a newspaper with obvious affection and pride. Included in this accolade are the hardworking and colorful employees of the Enquirer-writers, photographers, editors, and business managers. The celebrities, physicians, stars, and ordinary people that filled the pages of the Enquirer appear in The Untold Story treated with obvious respect and affection. Interwoven through most of the book is Gene Pope, an extraordinary man and boss with rare vision, insight, and daring, albeit often coupled with a complex personality mix of compassion and uncompromising demands.
Calder has done a fine job with The Untold Story-the book has a brisk pace, flows well, and always keeps the reader engaged and entertained. The Untold Story is not an expose, and anyone looking for a detrimental gossip or the airing of nefarious deeds or secrets will be disappointed. The book will not disappoint any reader looking for a clear and compelling story of one man's unique, challenging, and interesting career.
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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2477 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Ephemera: the rise and rise of celebrity journalism.("The Untold Story" and "The Importance of Being Famous")(Book Review)
Author: Neal Gabler
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Mia Hamm (Sports Superstars)
Carl Emerson
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Profiles the life and career of United States female soccer player Mia Hamm.
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Mia Hamm: Soccer Superstar (Reading Power)
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ASIN: 0823957160 |
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Mia Hamm holds the world record for scoring in soccer, and has been cited several times as being one of the best athletes alive today. In this book, her achievements are laid out in clear, simple prose, while the energy and excitement of her game is portrayed beautifully in full-color photo illustrations.
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Mia Hamm: Soccer Superstar/Superestrella Del Futhol Soccer (Superstars of Sports / Superestrellas Del Deporte)
Heather Feldman
Manufacturer: Rosen Publishing Group
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ASIN: 0823961362 |
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Almost a dollar a word-.......2007-02-28
I bought this for my daughter to learn about Mia. I think the price for this book for the detail/content was shocking. It's no wonder they show you so little in the preview, any more and you certainly would not need to buy it.
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Mia Hamm : Striking Superstar (soccer's new wave).......2001-01-05
This book was so great! It helped me to better understand soccer. I learned a lot of neat stuff in reading this book. Mia tells about playing striker, and gives tips for beginers. She explains how she came to be a super striker as well.If you are a person who wants to improve your game, a new one to the sport, or just a Mia Hamm fan you will truely love this book!
Book Description
This digital document is an article from New York Times Upfront, published by Scholastic, Inc. on September 6, 1999. The length of the article is 901 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: A Superstar's Burden.(women's soccer star Mia Hamm has become a celebrity and an inspiration to young women athletes)(Brief Article)
Author: Jere Longman
Publication:
New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 6, 1999
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 132
Issue: 1
Page: 32
Article Type: Brief Article
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Mia Hamm (Sports Superstars)
Richard Rambeck
Manufacturer: Childs World
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding
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ASIN: 1567665233 |
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GREAT!!!.......1998-11-10
An excellent book for any soccer players!!
Product Description
A beginning reader with easy to read information about Mia Hamm.
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