In the 1920s and early 1930s Hollywood publicity mills emphasized disparities between stars and audience. Photographs released by the studios to magazines tended to distance the readership from the celebrity to preserve an aura of mystery and awe. By the 1940s, due in part to the rise in the number of general interest and [...]
There is great feasting that night. The captive moon will speak, explaining all mysteries and the meaning behind many things. A sharp contrast with this visionary world populated by fake cities and made-up people; in smaller towns and villages nestled between the hills we find television with its unstoppable flow of images of wealth [...]
But whatever they have been called, press agents, in the course of their quest to canonize the superficial, have always been small history makers. As have the photographers represented by Globe Photos. These men and women have made a record of movie ant television personalities as they want to be seen, as the public [...]
Such deceit, such a sham cannot but have a valid justification; and that is that nothing is real, everything is false, everything is fake, not only his superiors but also their relatives, their wives, children and the homes they live in, the streets, the city, the country. It’s all a sham: the whole world is [...]
The two forces, in the early days such close collaborators, grew more at odds with one another as their goals changed, never more so than in the 80s and 90s. As magazines went from puff pieces to exposes, so did the Hollywood press agent change his stripes from pussicat to tiger. Over the years, the [...]
The other character, the Prefect, is oppressed by a persecution complex which causes him to believe he is the target of conspiracies, machinations, surveillance, traps and shadowing. He feels he is being spied on, everything is against him, everyone is watching him from windows, from shops, from bars; wherever he goes, wherever he stops, [...]
These pictures now come from an increasing variety of sources. Most are still produced in-house and hand-outs continue to be planted from studio and network publicity departments. Some come from public relations companies and some from the stars themselves. And, as the vistas expand, some from foreign agencies who form partnerships with domestic agencies and [...]
And the sea that is under the ground surely took the bottle to some well. He knows he’s been chosen to find it. And therefore is of the elect. Now he is close to finding the bottle: “On the point, I’m right there ”, he says moving his open fingers like a fan, “We’re [...]
There are now over 200 publications on the market aimed at 12-to-17-year-old, adding names like YM, TWIST e JUMP. Established magazines such as PEOPLE e COSMOPOLITAN have spawned TEEN PEOPLE e COSMO GIRL. Teen publications may be the only other group of magazines able to make stars – only for a shorter duration than the movie [...]
That is the result of a psychological trauma from the girl with whom he was in love abandoning him. It’s up to him to set the world straight and give back its meaning, but in order to do this, he must find a bottle containing a message. It’s a bottle coming from far away, [...]
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