Gay Talese

Gay Talese

Born: February 7, 1932
in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
Gay Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism.

Movies for Gay Talese...

Radical Wolfe
Title: Radical Wolfe
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2023
Type: Movie
With a distinctive style all his own, author and journalist Tom Wolfe reshapes how American stories are told.
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The Booksellers
Title: The Booksellers
Character: himself
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive. D.W. Young’s elegant and entertaining documentary, executive produced by Parker Posey, is a lively tour of New York’s book world, past and present, from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand and Argosy book stores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film features a litany of special guests, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of what’s inside.
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Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Title: Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.
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Post Truth Times
Title: Post Truth Times
Released: April 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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Voyeur
Title: Voyeur
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.
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Page One: Inside the New York Times
Title: Page One: Inside the New York Times
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
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Title: Sex: The Revolution
Released: May 12, 2008
Type: TV
Sex: The Revolution was a four-part 2008 American documentary miniseries that aired on VH1 and The Sundance Channel. It chronicled the rise of American interest in sexuality from the 1950s through the 1990s. The version shown on VH1 was pixelated to censor nudity including in discussions of censorship of nudity. VH1 Latin America aired the uncensored version.
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Sex Stars
Title: Sex Stars
Character: Self
Released: April 21, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.