Grace Kelly. I think FR rules apply for her...
Posted on 04/09/2010 12:59:26 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat
Kelley is generally thought of as an "Uh-oh" writer. That is, when she announces she is writing a book about X, the response is "Uh-oh," usually on the part of the subject. For the rest of us, the "Uh-oh" signifies: "This is gonna be good. It may be down and dirty, but it will be true, and it will be good." If there is hidden history to be gotten, Kelley will get it.
Some people belittle her work as muckraking that is perhaps fanciful, if not far-fetched, but that is because they can’t believe that there are facts about a famous person which have heretofore not been known. Let’s put it this way: Frank Sinatra, when she was writing her book on him, was so, um … displeased that he threatened to have her killed. And she’s never been sued successfully.
For her biography about Oprah, she did 850 interviews. Eight hundred and fifty! ..... Her work is that of a hybrid researcher/historian, and whatever she writes you can take to the bank. She is in no way an academic, which is probably the reason her books sell in the millions.
The second thing you need to know about this book is that most of the kingpin interviewers in the mainstream media were astonishingly up front about saying they would not help Kitty promote her book because they didn’t want to offend Oprah! They didn’t even make up excuses; they flat-out said they didn’t want to offend Oprah.
What is it, I wonder, that has major television people so afraid of Oprah? It is a question whose answer I look forward to finding in Kelley’s book. I will get back to you when I’ve read it.
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I’m reading it, I rather like those little scandal books. You should read Robert Lacey’s book on Grace Kelly. She rutted with half the industry and after her marriage with several men more.
It’s just so amazing how she managed to get away with all she did, in the fifties too.
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“Power in the money, money in the power.”
More evidence of the MSM good at giving it, but not taking it...
Yes she did.
She should write a book about OBAMA.
Well known fact; Grace Kelly was one of the biggest ‘hos in Hollywood. Bedded all her co-stars.
I assume the blackballing is due to Oprah’s homosexuality finally being publicly exposed? Her beard was that dude named “Straightman”?
when Grace Kelly was sleeping with half the industry, when she was an up and comer she was sneered at and considered a predator who preyed on men, married or single. But after becoming a success, she established her image as virginal and innocent and classy, and decent. When she dated Oleg Cassini, he was demonized and the press speculated on how ‘classy’ Grace Kelly saw in ‘such a man’ as Oleg Cassini. Even when she was still slutting around with all sorts of men, married or otherwise.
In that industry, it’s success that bestows virtue, not actual morals.
Stedman.
Looking at the bright side, she was not insufferably in our face the entire time.
Nor preaching to the rest of us about politics, social justice or the wonders of Marxism.
Rich trailer trash have always been with us. Why do they now need to be so loud?
The good old days.
“Looking at the bright side, she was not insufferably in our face the entire time.
Nor preaching to the rest of us about politics, social justice or the wonders of Marxism.”
Hardly. After her marriage she lectured on the virtues of breastfeeding, bashed women who wanted a career, and lectured her children on ‘proper’ princess behavior. She was one of few careerwomen in America and turned her back on it once she married Rainier. She was quite the hypocrite, like all of Hollywood.
"Straightman" was a character in a Simpsons parody that seem to be a more accurate name.
That she acted all holier than thou after marrying. As if she didn’t do the things she did.
Grace Kelley is a lot more interesting to me now that I know she good looking and a slut too! ;-)
Grace Kelley is a lot more interesting to me now that I know she (was) good looking and a slut too! ;-)
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