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Hollywood and Venal Audiobook Summary

“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.” — Oscar Levant

Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts, Guarding Gable, Mr. Huston/Mr. North) reveals the truth behind some of Hollywood’s biggest scandals, agendas, and confidences.

First published by reporter/columnist Nikki Finke on her acclaimed website HollywoodDementia.com, these romans-a-clef (stories with a key) expose long-hidden secrets about the Blacklist, the Oscars, publicity stunts, studio follies, ageism, celebrity weirdness, and other gambits that, even today, are barely whispered–if they are discussed at all. For half a century author Segaloff has been a publicist, critic, historian, and producer (not all at the same time) absorbing film industry lore. And he kept notes. Where he could use real names, he put them into his memoirs Screen Saver and Screen Saver Too (both from BearManor). Where he had to hide identities, he saved them for Hollywood and Venal.

Here is a collection of funny, revealing, moving, and sometimes absurd narratives, every one of which has its origins in an actual Hollywood event, legend, mindset, pitch, or occurrence known personally to the author. Listeners are invited to guess who.

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Hollywood and Venal Audiobook Narrator

Nat Segaloff is the narrator of Hollywood and Venal audiobook that was written by Nat Segaloff

Nat Segaloff covered the motion picture business for the Boston Herald, CBS Radio, and Group W. He has also been a studio publicist, college teacher, playwright, and author. In 1996 he formed the multimedia production company Alien Voices(r) with actors Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie and produced five bestselling, fully dramatized audio plays.

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Nat Segaloff is the author of Hollywood and Venal

Hollywood and Venal Full Details

Narrator Nat Segaloff
Length 5 hours 52 minutes
Author Nat Segaloff
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 29, 2024
ISBN 9781799933137

Subjects

The publisher of the Hollywood and Venal is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Short Stories (single author)

Additional info

The publisher of the Hollywood and Venal is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is BearManor Media. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781799933137.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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