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Sorry, so apparently according his book summary on Amazon, he still can't read! But he wrote this book....But he hasn't read it yet...
oh, i've posted about this before ! there's a really good book on it I'd recommend, but basically this malaysian dude pretty much embezzled a very, very significant amount of money from the malaysian government through a state-owned investment bank. there's pics of the dude who was behind it all, a guy still on the run named jho low, with leo dicaprio, paris hilton, one of the hadids, ludacris, alicia keys, padma lakshmi, and he associated with many others.
i don't remember miranda kerr's link specifically, but according to wiki, she gave up a $8 million in jewelry Low bought her, and leo gave back picassos and basquiats low bought him. absolutely nutty scandal tbh, def worth a deep dive into.
Slightly off topic, but if anyone is interested, Kathy Griffin goes into great detail about how the comedic storytelling scene started in her bio: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Book-Club-Selection-According/dp/0345518519/
Yeah I learned a lot from following astrologers on twitter and one book I recommend to everyone who wants to learn is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Only-Astrology-Book-Youll-Ever/dp/1589796535
It's part of his memoir. He was collaborating with her on something and said she was unprofessional and mean. Here's somewhat of an excerpt, although the book goes into more detail. It's a highly entertaining book for anyone who loves Hollywood gossip. He doesn't really hold back.
You could read the biography. It’s not great, but it includes an unfinished work that took me straight back to my teen years.
it partially defeats the purpose of having wireless headphones but they make like a tether you can attach to each of your airpods, so it ends up attaching them together so if one falls out it will just kinda dangle by the other one. you can also just wear them around your neck.
but yeah kinda kills the purpose of wireless to an extent.
It's on Audible. Link to it here.
There’s the movie Silenced (2011) with Gong Yoo on Netflix I would recommend. For Korean movies Tubi also has a lot of options, there are movies uploaded on YouTube and sometimes I’ll find them by searching in Hangul or alt English names.
For TV shows I recommend Viki and I like their subtitles and translations the most. There are sites like KissAsian and DramaCool but I have to use an adblocker to not get spammed as much.
I suggest getting a VPN for more access to TV and movies from other regions. I use it to see what’s in Netflix Korea. There’s a lot of VPNs out there but I use ExpressVPN.
Please read Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox! It's written by a feminist historian, doesn't gloss over things, really goes into how much she worked on her craft, analyzes her modelling photos and is really thoroughly researched. I learned a lot of new things about her and the author is so respectful of her. It's the best Marilyn bio I've read and I've read a few.
I knew it'd only be a matter of time before the dehumanizing, misogynistic takes on Marilyn Monroe started coming in.
Here's a fun quote from my fave MM bio for all the film bros:
Marilyn was talking to Peter Lawford's manager, Milton Ebbins, about how she felt like nothing more than "a piece of meat" to men.
Ebbins said "Marilyn, everyone loves you."
Marilyn responded, "The only guys that love me are the guys who jerk off in the balcony."
Oh wow, you’re right. Her blonde is too yellow and this brown is… dimensionless. She also needs these for her bangs.
Came out about 10 years ago, a very fast, weird, trashy read. Pretty eyeroll worthy in some parts, the guy spends a lot of the book attributing Bale’s career success to the fact that he ran his website or whatever.
The problem with the Beckham kids is they‘ve been in the spotlight since they were born, they were never really allowed a private life. Now they are growing up people expect them to be successful like their parents. With Brooklyn he’s tried photography, modelling, working as a chef though that seemed to be on tv, not sure if he has worked in a restaurant. Remember his photography book, being touted as some great photographer and it was an embarrassment. Check out the reviews
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-I-See-Brooklyn-Beckham/dp/0141375760
His girlfriend Rebecca Humphries went viral for a statement she made at the time on Twitter. She has just released a book and it is an incredible read: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09N8Q34YQ/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_bibl_vppi_i0
Read Let's Spend the Night Together by famous groupie Pamela Des Barres. It is very detailed and at times graphic, although the women interviewed never really see anything wrong with what they (or, more importantly, the male rock stars) were doing. There's a naiveté to it. The book was released before #MeToo where we started reexamining things. If you are looking for unfiltered, uncensored stories of that era straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, this is it.
The stories span the time from Elvis to the 2000s. Marilyn Manson's groupies are some of the more recent women interviewed. They openly talked about how abusive he would be towards them, but they played it off as "oh, he's a rock star". The woman who David Bowie allegedly took the virginity from at the age of 13 is also interviewed. Perhaps the most disgusting stories surround Iggy Pop, whose name is never really mentioned today but during the 70s he exclusively had a thing for underage girls 14 to 16-years-old. They are interviewed as well.
I bought the book as a salacious read when I was younger. I re-read it a few years ago and I am absolutely repulsed by everything in it. I suspect it will never be reprinted.
Thank you! There's a great book called Tiger in a trance that's about the seedier side of those who followed the Dead.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC2JO8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?\_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
So, Ashley Mears is a sociology professor at BU now, but she used to model. She has a great book, <em>Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model</em> which covers a lot about the industry. I read a couple of chapters for a college Politics of Fashion class.
As I recall, the agency’s commercial models tend to pay for its runway models (don’t remember where editorial stands), who often either cost the agencies or don’t make them much but obviously are considered more prestigious. This would obviously also exclude famous models who also do runway work. And of course the looks vary quite a bit among these groups. She talks also of different cities and their different aesthetics (like New York versus London). She appears to be still quite young, and you can find some of her old modeling work online.
Yay! Happy to have inspired someone.
Just letting you know that fasting is an art and it's not just about not eating. You have to eat right before a fast and also break the fast with the right food.
Also during a fast you have to no push your body too mush. Let it ready and heal. Make you drink enough water. Tea and coffee, if drunken naturally, is fine for autophagy. Especially Bergamot tea, look it up.
I would also supplement with electrolytes while doing it. This is a good one without additives: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000AMUWLK/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_MJ3NSY9Y8QQNMDDGJQ6S
Also, don't jump in to a 72h fast. Start slow and let your body get used to it. She talk about it on her channel.
Good luck! 🤗
Totally agree with you re: a women's perspective of this era. Would love to read an in-depth exploration by a modern female film writer of New Hollywood! But if podcasts are your bag, Karina Longworth's "You Must Remember This" podcast has some great episodes that involve a few of the key figures.
I, too, would love a Nicholson autobiography. He's one of my favourites, but infuriatingly mysterious! I found this at a thrift store a little while ago but have yet to read it so not sure as to its quality: https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Nicholson-David-Downing/dp/0812881583
There is a rather lengthy Beatty book written by Peter Biskind - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Warren-Beatty-Seduced-America/dp/0743246594 - who wrote the wonderful "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" (read this one for all your 1970s New Hollywood film tea!).
Her mom apparently wrote a book called the Hollywood Parents Guide: the Roadmap to Pursuing your Child’s Dream.
The book seems well-intentioned, but I’m always skeptical when parents allow minors to get plastic surgery (in Doves case, she was probably around 14 or 15 when she got her first nose job!)
I looked at the descriptions for each of the episodes for their show, which is still up on prime video click here to see.
The descriptions are all about them renovating their own home, not other people’s. Was the format of the episodes them renovating their house while simultaneously working on client’s homes? Or did they scrap everything having to do with clients when they realized no one was happy?
From an outsider it seems like they realized the original idea of fixing up other people’s homes wasn’t going to work and they started over charging people to subsidize the cost of their own home so at least they would have a final product (content-wise) to turn into Magnolia.
Also, I’m really sorry you and your family went through this.
Thank you LOL, I’m confused too. Box mix is great for what it is. It’s consistent, it always tastes the same no matter who makes it or where you make it, and it’s been scientifically engineered be nearly foolproof. Cakes from scratch are in a whole different realm, and if people disagree with me it’s clear they haven’t been eating the right cakes made from scratch. It’s like comparing yellowtail or fisheye wine to a really great wine from a small local vineyard. That is, there is no comparison.
Now, I am sure that plenty of bakeries are using premade cake mix, maybe not Betty Crocker but almost certainly the kind that you would get from Sysco or US Foods or another restaurant supplier. But there are also plenty of good ones, and good independent pastry chefs, who don’t do this. And you can absolutely taste the difference. I never thought I would be talking about this on r/DeuxMoi, but man, I could spill SOOOO much tea about the food industry that would blow people away. If I ever leave the industry I might just do that.
I read this book a while ago and it has always stuck with me. It talks about the invention of boxed cake mix and one fascinating fact was that they didn’t actually need to have you add the eggs, because they could just add powdered eggs to the mix. But when they did consumer research they found that people considered it more “actual baking” if they cracked the eggs themselves. So that’s why it has always been that way. The food industry is fascinating/terrifying.
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America https://www.amazon.com/dp/014303491X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_4HVAQW5C1CW0J27GJZT3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
For the ultimate juicy story of one of Silicon Valley's original "oligarchs", I highly recommend the book Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday. To briefly summarize, the publication Gawker loved to out prominent gay people, and they did so to Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal). Apparently Peter comes from a very religious, conservative family and was out amongst his friends but not publicly. Peter Thiel tried and failed to sue them. Years later when Gawker put up a video on their site of Hulk Hogan "swinging" with his friend's wife and complaining that his daughter was with a non-athlete black man (apparently he didn't have a problem if the guy was a rich, famous black athlete and disappointed that he was a nobody?). It was viewed by many millions of people. So HH sued Gawker into oblivion, causing them to have to shut down. It's later revealed that Peter Thiel secretly funded the entire process, paying all of the legal fees, etc.
I remember as a child that my mother had a couple of books that sparked my celebrity scandal interest: one was called “Too Young to die” by Patricia Fox-Shinewold and the other was “Helter-skelter” by Vincent Bugliosi.
As a kid I used to look at these books often because the idea of death was scary and unknown to me. Each had lots of photos that I would study. I don’t think I read the actual text!
Too young to die https://www.amazon.com/dp/0966193407/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_YGVRZ8F7GR3FPPMMWSDD
Helter Skelter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KEPC7M/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_CVS9N9XCJDFE0SZR2HJ5
Well, we have to keep the time frame in mind. 20-30 years ago, when this happened? Absolutely. I'd still be concerned about it now, yes, but in the 90s, no doubt at all.
Do you remember the story of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco from around the same time period? He was 35 and she was 16. And he wasn't viewed as a predator, he was viewed as a man who had had an affair after being sexually enticed by crazed sexpot. It was still so normal back then to ignore power balances like that.
It's not that Grammar wouldn't have experienced consequences--he definitely would. But the notoriety that she'd experience would attract enough people who would blame or mock her that her life would be a living hell.
And victims of rape/assault/sexual coercion still face an extremely uphill battle, legally and socially. I'll suggest the 2015 book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer as journalism that documents this in a meticulous and horrifying way.
I haven’t got my hands on it yet but I hear this book, Larger Than Life, goes in depth on boy bands. There’s also a documentary on YouTube, The Boy Band Con. It’s more about the con man Lou Pearlman and how he put together Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, but there were some interesting tidbits regarding marketing and image.
Pamela Des Barres wrote the book in 1987. It wasn’t a best seller or anything and 1987 was before all of this was considered taboo. Pamela was a big rock and roll groupie in the 60s-70s and moved on to actors and other stars in thr 80s. She was with all the big rock stars at the time.
I read her book a few years ago. I wish I still had it. She was serious with Don, they lived together for a couple of years. And she said Don and Melanie were immediately smitten with each other and even though Melanie was so young Pamela knew something was up. Pamela had to go out of town and when she got back she figured out Don and Melanie had slept together and Don left her for Melanie. Melanie was 14.
I found a link where she talks about it.
But like I said, online now things say 16 and 22. So was older than that.
Here is her book.