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Hunter Tab - Tab Hunter Confidential The Making Of A Movie Star - Paperback
Hunter Tab - Tab Hunter Confidential The Making Of A Movie Star - Paperback
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Description: " 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.
Title: Tab Hunter Confidential The Making Of A Movie Star
Author(s): Hunter Tab
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9781565125483
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 9/8/2006
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: " 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.
Title: Tab Hunter Confidential The Making Of A Movie Star
Author(s): Hunter Tab
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9781565125483
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 9/8/2006
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
