Video Slut

By - Sharon Oreck

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Faber and Faber, Inc., New York, 2010

ISBN 10 - 0865479860

ISBN 13 - 9780865479869

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Motion picture producers and directors

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 791.4302 ORE

Physical Description - viii, 245 pages ; 21 cm

Book Information

When video killed the radio star, Sharon Oreck was calling the shots. Video Slut takes an irreverent look behind the scenes of the music-video industry during its eighties heyday. Oreck, one of the top producers of all time, bluffed her way into the business with no experience whatsoever and went on to produce more than six hundred video shoots with Madonna, Sting, Mick Jagger, Prince, and several members of the increasingly unstable Jackson family—not to mention a cadre of delinquent caterers, deranged interns, self-absorbed record executives, and malfeasant animal trainers. Oreck also shares the at turns hilarious, biting, and poignant story of her origins as a single teen mother, disowned by her middle-class parents, and of her journey from welfare to kung fu movie sets to film school. She approaches her own delinquency and that of the superstars she encountered with humor and candor. The result is an acerbic but sympathetic account of the outrageous effects of fame, power, and money on people in the entertainment business. No one is spared, especially herself.

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