30 Jul 2010 18:53:29
Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, without her cooperation, and you're taking a chance.
Coming a week after the release of her latest film, "Salt," a biography has been published. "Angelina," by Andrew Morton, is out with an announced first printing of 150,000 copies and the promise of a "spellbinding" adventure. Openly billed as "Unauthorized," the book includes intimate details on her troubled childhood, on such past lovers as Billy Bob Thornton and Timothy Hutton and, of course, her years with Brad Pitt.
Morton has a strong commercial history, but better when he works with a subject's involvement (Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky) than without (Tom Cruise, Madonna).
In the age of the Internet, the unauthorized biography has been increasingly scooped by instant, endless online gossip.
Coming a week after the release of her latest film, "Salt," a biography has been published. "Angelina," by Andrew Morton, is out with an announced first printing of 150,000 copies and the promise of a "spellbinding" adventure. Openly billed as "Unauthorized," the book includes intimate details on her troubled childhood, on such past lovers as Billy Bob Thornton and Timothy Hutton and, of course, her years with Brad Pitt.
Morton has a strong commercial history, but better when he works with a subject's involvement (Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky) than without (Tom Cruise, Madonna).
In the age of the Internet, the unauthorized biography has been increasingly scooped by instant, endless online gossip.
