http://observer.com Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/dac0f3722a48a53be75eb06c0c4f5119?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://observer.com http://observer.com/2011/12/publishing-insider-admits-what-we-already-know-most-celebrity-memoirs-are-terrible/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:01:19 -0400 http://observer.com/2011/12/publishing-insider-admits-what-we-already-know-most-celebrity-memoirs-are-terrible/ Emily Witt http://www.observer.com/?p=208360 Ever wonder how all those celebrity memoirs get published? Writing at The Daily Beast, former Simon & Schuster editor in chief Michael Korda describes how book publishers get seduced by Hollywood glitter: "Stranded in Beverly Hills, where movie stars and studio heads and successful directors outranked them, where you can’t walk to anywhere, and where people who matter arrive at the porte cochère of the hotel or the restaurant in a glittering car or limousine, sometimes to be greeted by a storm of photoflashes, they were fair game, thirsting for tea or drinks with even the most passé of movie stars and prepared to find them glamorous and fascinating." Suckers!Then, as he put it, the memoirs almost always turn out to be "dull and overrated." Overrated?

]]> Ever wonder how all those celebrity memoirs get published? Writing at The Daily Beast, former Simon & Schuster editor in chief Michael Korda describes how book publishers get seduced by Hollywood glitter: "Stranded in Beverly Hills, where movie stars and studio heads and successful directors outranked them, where you can’t walk to anywhere, and where people who matter arrive at the porte cochère of the hotel or the restaurant in a glittering car or limousine, sometimes to be greeted by a storm of photoflashes, they were fair game, thirsting for tea or drinks with even the most passé of movie stars and prepared to find them glamorous and fascinating." Suckers!Then, as he put it, the memoirs almost always turn out to be "dull and overrated." Overrated?

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