UNINVITED: CONFESSIONS OF A HOLLYWOOD PARTY CRASHER

Book ID/图书代码： 02919019C00020

English Summary/英文概要： Drawing on more than twenty years of interviews, anecdotes, and personal experiences, Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher recounts the unique journey of a former Los Angeles Times reporter who, struggling with the collapse of his industry and personal tragedies, falls in with a group of intrepid gatecrashers who routinely pierce Tinseltown’s celebrity party circuit. Author Adrian Maher is the first to chronicle this unique subterranean culture in La La Land—a group of social strivers, ambitious outliers, compulsive risk-takers, and dysfunctional characters seeking access to a famous and exclusive society from which they’ve been banned. Uninvited uses all the author’s skills as a veteran reporter, television producer, private investigator, archivist, and humorous storyteller to reveal the unseen capers, snafus, and mishaps behind Hollywood’s palace gates against a backdrop of America’s fascination with celebrity culture. And it exposes the personal struggles of an adrenaline-addicted gatecrasher facing perpetual moral challenges, physical dangers, and psychological stressors that culminate in near disaster.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 數年前，遭受個人職業生涯的崩潰和個人生活的悲劇，Adrian Maher意外地加入了一個派對闖入者的團體，這是個由一群社會奮鬥者、野心勃勃的局外人、冒險強迫症患者和一堆有重重問題的角色所組成的團體，他們致力於闖入那個他們所被禁止進入的名流世界。

在本書中，Adrian Maher首度揭露了這個浮華世界地下的獨特文化，他動用了他二十多年來作為資深記者、電視製片人、私家偵探、秘書和幽默的說書人的全部本領，戳穿了美國迷戀名人文化的帷幕，為我們揭露了在好萊塢宮殿大門背後的陰暗面。同時，本書也描述了這些派對闖入者的個人掙扎、他們所面臨的道德難題、身體上的危險和心理壓力，以及所有這些如何將一切推向近乎災難的後果。 (Zoe)

Awards/获奖情况：「Adrian Maher的這群派對闖入者會讓所有狗仔肅然起敬...刺激、有趣且超現實。他的好萊塢是一個永不停止且令人毛骨悚然的故事。」 ──Jennifer Buhl，著有《拍攝明星：我拍攝好萊塢名人的意外人生》

「一個精彩的故事，講述了一大堆社交狂闖入好萊塢這個秘密產業、推翻界限、克服障礙以及不斷冒險的故事。機智風趣且充滿亮點...無價的時刻和場面。敘事宏大且比任何電影劇本都還要離奇。」 ──電影《驚爆點》導演Rick King

"Adrian Maher’s gate-crasher capers would make any paparazzi proud: an ear for confrontation, a nose for action, and an eye for exquisite details. Nervy, amusing, and surreal. His Hollywood is a ceaseless and hair-raising series of nightly exploits and daily reckonings." --Jennifer Buhl, author of Shooting Stars: My Unexpected Life Shooting Hollywood’s Most Famous

"A wackadoodle journey over, under, and around the velvet rope. A laugh-a-minute page-turner as dramatic as any multi-million dollar blockbuster. Hilarious, gripping, and revealing." --Bill Kalmenson, comedian, actor, and host of the hit podcast, "A Rebel Without Applause"

"Adrian Maher’s Uninvited is an uproarious account of his party-crashing adventures--and the quirky characters that shared his compulsions. It’s also a forthright exploration of his own motives, a keen commentary on celebrity culture, and an offbeat anthropology of contemporary Los Angeles. Consider this your formal invitation to enjoy his madcap memoir." --Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

"Aided by a Halloween gallery of fellow rogues and adrenaline junkies, Adrian Maher takes us on a joyous romp through backstage Hollywood dodging security, public relations flacks, and his own conscience. You’ll be amazed at the chameleon disguises and side-door antics that put an everyman behind the hedge gates and face to face with Clint, Hef, Arianna, and the rest of Tinseltown’s high and mighty. Deliciously subversive." --James Rainey, senior reporter, Los Angeles Times

"Used to think great gonzo journalism was dead until I picked up this magnificent trip through the world of hilarious party-crashing wackos and their obsessive weekly tango with class, fame, and hors d’oeuvres. I feel better now about gonzo journalism, though the country may be doomed." --Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

"A rollicking tale about a bunch of social wannabes busting down Hollywood’s closed-door industry, pushing boundaries, confronting obstacles, and nonstop risk-taking. Witty and illuminating . . . priceless moments and scenes. A grand narrative more bizarre than any movie script." --Rick King, film producer, Point Break

About the Author/作者介绍： Adrian Maher曾擔任《洛杉磯時報》的記者，以及也是UPI、《新聞周刊》、《時代》雜誌和《洛杉磯周刊》的自由撰稿人。他為Discovery頻道、History頻道、國家地理頻道、美國廣播公司、福克斯、MSNBC和旅遊生活頻道撰寫劇本、導演和製作過數十部節目。他還曾在查普曼大學教授新聞調查寫作以及紀錄片的製作。他畢業於加州大學英國文學系，並擁有哥倫比亞大學新聞學碩士學位。他住在加州聖莫尼卡。

Adrian Maher was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and a freelance journalist for UPI, Newsweek, Time Magazine and the L.A. Weekly. He has written, directed, and produced dozens of television programs for Discovery, History, National Geographic, ABC, Fox, MSNBC, and Travel channels. Maher has also taught investigative journalism and documentary film production as an adjunct professor at Chapman University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Santa Monica, CA.

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