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Author: Stephen Fried Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451676409 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 508
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The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author. At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society’s views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
Author: Stephen Fried Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451676409 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 508
Book Description
The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author. At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society’s views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
Author: Sterling Saint James Publisher: Parhelion House ISBN: 9780989369510 Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
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Movie star Gia Scala, beautiful and famous, was courted by rich and powerful men, but the man she loved, left her for another. Her rise to fame was meteoric: when a contestant on a TV game show-- "Stop the Music," she was spotted by a Universal Studios talent scout. Offered a screen test, soon thereafter she was cast in a movie with Rock Hudson. More films followed with stars Glenn Ford, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, and so on. When she met the love of her life, her "Tesoro" as she called him; the yo-yo relationship lasted a few years, then he left her for another star, a younger woman, beautiful and talented. Gia was deeply hurt and never recovered from her loss, and the humiliation.
Author: Sacha Lanvin Baumann Publisher: ISBN: 9781518834240 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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In February 1978, when the flawless Gia Carangi arrived in New York at the age of barely eighteen, she had already landed a contract with one of the most prestigious modeling agencies in the world. The future that lay before her seemed dazzling. Blessed with a magnetic beauty and a unique personality, the young Philadelphia native reached the peak of success in only a few months, quickly joining the elite ranks of "supermodels." One of the most requested models in her field, Gia appeared regularly in such magazines as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan. For all intents and purposes, Gia's life quickly became a fairy tale-or so it seemed. In only a few years, Gia's destiny was complicated by unscrupulous individuals and by her inability to manage her cataclysmic success. Once on that road, the legendary model began a decline that led to her tragic end.Born This Way brings to light never-before-heard stories and unusual memories of Gia, offering new perspectives on her life, career, and personality. Through these previously unpublished accounts by those who knew and worked with Gia, Lanvin shines a spotlight on the woman herself, peering beneath the fast-lane glamor and the fame to capture the true essence of a supermodel who continues to mesmerize the world even decades after her death.
Author: Ana'Gia Wright Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781601620392 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Resenting her parents for refusing to allow her to attend the funeral of her first love, Jerad, Krystal leaves home to seek sanctuary with Jerad's cousins while she struggles to deal with the demons in her life.
Author: Matthew Ralph Publisher: ISBN: 9781916242241 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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Full of colorful animal illustrations and set in the beautiful African savanna, this rhyming picture book follows Gia, a giraffe with a not so giant neck, as she goes on a journey of self-discovery. Children will also find a bunch of fun learning activities, including spot the difference, a word search and even fact files for the animals featured.
Author: Marty Haugen Publisher: ISBN: 9781622772858 Category : Baptism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Bestselling composer Marty Haugen's Child of Wonder, written for the baptism of his godson, celebrates the sacredness of human life and childhood. Now in this wonderful book, artist Stephen Nesser illuminates the lyrics with scenes of childhood rituals from faith traditions and cultures around the world, who play together to form community. These vibrant illustrations are a perfect complement to Marty's inspired poetry. Included with the volume is a link to a free mp3 download of the song, as well as the full notation of Child of Wonder for families that wish to sing along.
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