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The Untold Story
Hyperion
January 2011
On Sale: January 18, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 1401324126
EAN: 9781401324124
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more
desired than power. Each season
American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope
is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an
unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or
her into a genuine star. It has become not only the biggest
show on television, but the biggest force in all of
entertainment; its alumni dominate the recording charts and
Broadway, win Academy Awards, and sweep up Grammys. In fact,
American Idol has reshaped the very idea of
celebrity. But it didn't start out that way. When the
little singing contest debuted as a summer replacement on
the U.S. airwaves, it was packed between reruns and low-cost
filler. The promise that it would find America's next pop
star produced a hearty round of guffaws from the country's
media critics. Now, some ten years and millions of records
later, no one is laughing. American Idol: The
Untold Story chronicles the triumphs and travails, the
harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage
battles that built this revolutionary show. In this
revealing book, veteran journalist Richard Rushfield goes
deeper inside the circus than any reporter ever has.
Candid
interviews with Idol alumni, including Simon Fuller and
Simon Cowell, shed new light on the show that changed the
entertainment industry. And because Rushfield had full
access to the people who created the show, starred in it,
and kept it atop the pop culture pyramid, this book is the
first to take Americans behind the curtain and tell what has
really been happening on the world's most watched and
speculated-about stage.
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