(Beyond the passions of love, lies wickedness unrecognized...)
Beyond the passions of love, lies wickedness unrecognized, until the unpredictable ensue the unwary. Love Thorns and Demons is a narrative and creative non-fiction, based on true events, as Jacqueline transitions into a new venture with her daughter Bobbi Jo, only to encounter the unpredictable ahead. Jacqueline had no clue when she fell in love with her prince charming, he would begin displaying unstable and foreign traits contrary to his former qualities. As the demons skip faster and more furiously around her and her daughter, her devotion is distrusted. Corey’s demonic and sinful schemes advance more rapidly thrusting thorns faster and deeper into Jacqueline’s heart, with the first, second, then third and forth ‘mere accidents’ surface; and God is her and her daughter’s only hope for survival.
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The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All...)
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic
The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design introduction by Simon Doonan never-before-seen archival material an essay from Jackie, My Book Is Not Dirty!”
At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there’s no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls.
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Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a worl...)
Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a world that never slept. Magazine editors, models, pop stars, and all the rest visited "vitamin doctors" to get the shots that would allow them to stay up all night and then work all day--in offices decorated with beanbag chairs and Calderesque mobiles. In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Angeles for a guy just like Mike Wayne, the glamorous movie producer, who also just happens to be her father.
Though often panned by critics, Susann's slightly sordid yet thoroughly fabulous novel was embraced by her fans. Once Is Not Enough became Susann's third consecutive novel to reach the number one spot on the New York Times best-seller list--the first time any author had accomplished this feat. The novel would be Susann's last great success: The year after its publication, in 1974, the author died of breast cancer.
(The epitome of our character is to fulfill our dreams in ...)
The epitome of our character is to fulfill our dreams in pursuit of the ideal mate to share the realization of the lifestyle we crave. The key elements most widely sought after stems from outward appearance, magic, and enchantment, rather than the integrity of the heart. Naive to the reality of genuine and valid love, and the inner distortions and stains; Jacqueline engages her audience into the anarchic choices of atypical love(s), sure to be a consideration for a psychiatric phenomenon.
Jacqueline may never learn her lesson in Loving the Outlaws....or does she?
Jacqueline Susann was an American writer and actress. In addition to her acting and hosting work, Susann wrote, produced, and starred in commercials.
Background
Jacqueline was born on August 20, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Robert Susann and Rose Jans. Her father was a portrait artist whose subjects included prominent sports figures and politicians; her mother taught grade school. Jacqueline Susann worshiped her father, a relationship that would become the theme of her third novel, Once Is Not Enough (1974).
Education
Triumphing over her parents' desire to send her to college, Susann moved to New York City in 1936 to find work on Broadway. Although she attended a few acting and ballet classes, Susann was too caught up in the show business scene to concentrate much on developing her performance skills.
Career
In 1937, while at a gathering spot for theater people, Susann met an up-and-coming press agent, Irving Mansfield, who later became a television and film producer. He became her confidant and her entrie into the show business world. In 1946, realizing that her Broadway career was going nowhere, Susann pulled her typewriter out of the closet and set out to write a play with her friend Beatrice Cole. A caustic look at Hollywood and Broadway, The Temporary Mrs. Smith, which was soon rechristened Lovely Me (1946), proved to be a less successful preview of her later publishing success. Susann worked the press effectively to gain media attention far in excess of the play's merits. And while most critics panned the work, audiences loved it. The play would have been an unqualified hit had the producers not lost their theater to a previously booked show after four weeks.
Disappointed with the vagaries of play production, Susann put away her typewriter for another fifteen years. During this time, she found work as a radio talk-show host (a rarity for a woman at the time), a television commercial "plugger, " and a game-show host.
In 1962, Susann, after encouragement from friends and her mother, began writing again. Although she had outlined a story called "The Pink Dolls" about drugs and sex in show business, she decided to first publish an account of life with her beloved poodle, Josephine.
The manuscript was accepted but then put on hold by Doubleday and Company; Susann eventually published Every Night, Josephine! (1963) with Bernard Geis Associates, a maverick publishing firm that specialized in marketing pop culture books. The combined efforts of Susann, Mansfield, and the Geis staff enabled the author to plug Every Night, Josephine! on radio and television appearances, in magazine interviews and articles, in gossip columns, and at book signings across the country.
Every Night, Josephine! was a modest success, originally selling 40, 000 copies and climbing to number ten on the New York Times best-seller list. All of this did not prepare the world for Susann's next novel, Valley of the Dolls (1966), the eventual successor to "The Pink Dolls. "
Susann's next two novels, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not Enough (1973), followed the same formula as Valley of the Dolls. Although they were not quite as popular, both spent many weeks on the Times best-seller list, and The Love Machine was also made into a movie.
Susann continued to publicize Once Is Not Enough until several weeks before her death from breast cancer, which had been diagnosed in 1963.
Her main ambition was to "be somebody, " although her haphazard work at West Philadelphia High School indicated she had little interest in excelling academically.
Connections
On April 2, 1939, Susann married press agent Irving Mansfield, who had impressed her by successfully placing "items" about her in the theater and society pages of New York newspapers.
Biographer Barbara Seaman, who had access to Susann's diaries, claims that during this time Susann began taking the combination of alcohol, sleeping pills, and diet pills that would play a central role in her novels. In 1946 Susann had a baby.
Since she had continued to smoke, drink, and take pills during her pregnancy, Susann maintained a strong sense of guilt about her possible role in her son's autism, especially after he was permanently institutionalized.
Despite persistent rumors of infidelity on Susann's part, she and Mansfield were devoted to each other, and remained married until her death in 1974.