Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie StarAlgonquin Books, 8 set 2006 - 416 pagine "Mesmerizing." —The New York Times Book Review Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets "discovered" by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of innocence and trust and need, he will become a star. It seems almost preordained. The open smile says, "You will love me," and soon the whole world does. The young boy's name was Tab Hunter—a made-up name, of course, a Hollywood name—and it was his time. Stardom didn't come overnight, although it seemed that way. In fact, the fame came first, when his face adorned hundreds of magazine covers; the movies, the studio contract, the name in lights—all that came later. For Tab Hunter was a true product of Hollywood, a movie star created from a stable boy, a shy kid made even more so by the way his schoolmates—both girls and boys—reacted to his beauty, by a mother who provided for him in every way except emotionally, and by a secret that both tormented him and propelled him forward. In Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, Hunter speaks out for the first time about what it was like to be a movie star at the end of the big studio era, to be treated like a commodity, to be told what to do, how to behave, whom to be seen with, what to wear. He speaks also about what it was like to be gay, at first confused by his own fears and misgivings, then as an actor trapped by an image of boy-next-door innocence. And when he dared to be difficult, to complain to the studio about the string of mostly mediocre movies that were assigned to him, he learned that just like any manufactured product, he was disposable—disposable and replaceable. Hunter's career as a bona fide movie star lasted a decade. But he persevered as an actor, working continuously at a profession he had come to love, seeking—and earning—the respect of his peers, and of the Hollywood community. And so, Tab Hunter Confidential is at heart a story of survival—of the giddy highs of stardom, and the soul-destroying lows when phone calls begin to go unreturned; of the need to be loved, and the fear of being consumed; of the hope of an innocent boy, and the rueful summation of a man who did it all, and who lived to tell it all. |
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THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 3 Bless Me Father | 27 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 4 At Sea | 34 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 5 Henrys Boys | 41 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 6 Thats the Boy I Want | 53 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 21 Renaissance | 196 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 22 Damn Yankees | 205 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 23 Who Does He Remind You Of? | 213 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 24 The Price of Freedom | 221 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 25 Menace to Society | 227 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 26 Searching for Open Doors | 241 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 27 Train Wreck | 246 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 28 Ride the Wild Surf | 255 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 7 Manufacturing a Movie Star | 60 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 8 Fames Waiting Room | 65 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 9 Dont Worry Itll Only Play DriveIns | 71 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 10 Battle Cry | 83 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 11 Breakdown | 92 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 12 Breakthrough | 100 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 13 Success and Scandal | 113 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 14 The Ideal Couple | 123 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 15 Fever Pitch | 141 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 16 Out of the Blue | 151 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 17 Young Love | 160 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 18 Europa Europa | 171 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 19 The Deep Freeze | 178 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 20 Dont Fence Me In | 188 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 29 Trivia and Tragedy | 264 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 30 Limbo | 271 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 31 The Idle Rich | 278 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 32 Panhandling | 284 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 33 Joanie Pony | 291 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 34 Locomotion | 297 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 35 Divine Intervention | 309 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 36 Lust | 315 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 37 The New Hollywood | 327 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 38 A Horse of a Different Color | 338 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR 39 Happy to Be Forgotten | 345 |
THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 355 |
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