SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL JACKSON'S NOSE - and Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity Mad Culture

Feschuk, Scott

ISBN 10: 0771047525 / ISBN 13: 9780771047527

Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2003

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(xii) 228 pp. Trade paperback format. Signed by Scott Feschuk on the title page. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. The Contents are: Celebrities Are Great; Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose: Future Newspaper Headlines; The Barbara Walters Interview: Barbara Walters; What's on TV Tonight; Star Trek: A Celebrity Itself; The Cultural Elitist Channel; A Two Faced Snake; Material Girl; Ways to Make Hockey More Popular Among Television Viewers in the United States; NFL Presents: Training Camp Journals; The Fin Thing Again; What a Croc; The Larry King Interview: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial; Intellectual Property; Fabulous; Coming Up During Sweeps Month; Celebrity Genitals; Shatner; The Reality of Television: Reality Television; The Bachelor: Bachelorette Application Form; You Are Next; Internal Memorandum; The School for Aspiring Supermodels; Dear Mr TV Answer Man; Ten Signs Your Big New Movie Is Going to Bomb at the Box Office; What's on TV Tonight in Hell; Film Review; The Season of Fawn; Simple Ways to Make the Oscars Less Tedious; Oscar Bingo; How to Write an Oscar Speech; The Apology: A One Act Play; A Selection of Movie Artifacts and Memorabilia Rejected by Planet Hollywood; The Fifteen Things I'd Immediately Do If I Ran American Television; and A Personal Message to Powerful Hollywood Executives. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL JACKSON'S NOSE - and Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity Mad Culture
• Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771047525
• ISBN 13: 9780771047527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Printing - First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Entertainment
  • General Interest

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Synopsis

In his first book, National Post columnist Scott Feschuk offers a hilarious, satirical take on trends in television and our peculiar obsession with the famous, the infamous, and the nature of Tom Cruise’s sexuality. Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose romps through the birth and the future of reality television, takes readers to the all-star parties thrown each summer by the major American television networks, and makes the case that what the world needs now is more – yes, more! – showbiz award shows. It pokes fun at Hollywood’s rich and renowned, and also at Steve Guttenberg. It both applauds and skewers our intensifying fascination with the profoundly inconsequential: tribal councils, celebrity interviews, the crude romantic exploits of bachelors and bogus millionaires. And it takes us on a tour through the prevailing popular culture of the twenty-first century, with stops at the Starship Enterprise, Britney Spears, Sesame Street, the Oscars, Pamela Anderson, a naked Billy Baldwin, and the everchanging facial topography of the King of Pop.

About the Author

<b>Scott Feschuk</b> is an Ottawa-based columnist with the <i>National Post</i>. He writes daily on television and has also written extensively on film. One time, after the Oscars, Faye Dunaway mistook him for a valet and ordered him to find her limo.