{PDF EPUB} the Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann the Love Machine PDF Book by Jacqueline Susann (1969) Download Or Read Online
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann The Love Machine PDF Book by Jacqueline Susann (1969) Download or Read Online. The Love Machine PDF book by Jacqueline Susann Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Published in January 1st 1969 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, romance books. The main characters of The Love Machine novel are Robin Stone, Amanda (the fashion model). The book has been awarded with Booker Prize, Edgar Awards and many others. One of the Best Works of Jacqueline Susann. published in multiple languages including English, consists of 511 pages and is available in Paperback format for offline reading. The Love Machine PDF Details. Author: Jacqueline Susann Book Format: Paperback Original Title: The Love Machine Number Of Pages: 511 pages First Published in: January 1st 1969 Latest Edition: December 14th 1997 Language: English Generes: Fiction, Romance, Womens Fiction, Chick Lit, Drama, Classics, Womens Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Literature, 20th Century, Main Characters: Robin Stone, Amanda (the fashion model), Maggie Stewart, Judith Austin, Gregory Austin Formats: audible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. Please note that the characters, names or techniques listed in The Love Machine is a work of fiction and is meant for entertainment purposes only, except for biography and other cases. we do not intend to hurt the sentiments of any community, individual, sect or religion. DMCA and Copyright : Dear all, most of the website is community built, users are uploading hundred of books everyday, which makes really hard for us to identify copyrighted material, please contact us if you want any material removed. The Love Machine Read Online. Please refresh (CTRL + F5) the page if you are unable to click on View or Download buttons. ISBN 13: 9780802135445. In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other "baby" and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it "the love machine." But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith, and journalist Maggie, "the love machine" meant something else: Robin Stone, "a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths. The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens." (Newsweek) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Back in print, the spectacular best-seller from the author of Valley of the Dolls. 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. 'Spectacularly successful. There are plane crashes, drug orgies, motorcycle accidents, mass rapes, attempted abortions, suicide, evil doctors and assorted other activities; and I just couldn't put the damned thing down."--Library Journal. "[Susann's] pulp poetry resonates to this day. With her formula of sex, drugs and show business, Susann didn't so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours."--Detour. Jacqueline Susann left her hometown of Philadelphia and moved to New York, where she won the Best Dressed Woman in Television Award four times. But it was the success of her blockbusters Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine, and Once is Not Enough that transformed her into the Pucci-clad media superstar we remember today. Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield. She died in 1974. The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann. "He touched you once, but now he's gone. The pillow that his head was on, is colder than the silent dawn. He's moving on. He's moving on. That's Robin Stone. He's moving on." Awfulness like this is rare--it needs to be acknowledged and celebrated. Sony, jumping into the direct mail-order business by pressing on-demand DVDs of their Columbia Pictures library catalogue (read my review of the spy caper Otley here, and the weirdo shocker The Mad Room here), has released Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine , the 1971 big-screen expose of sex, perversion, and violence in the cutthroat world of American network television. Starring an absolutely unfathomable cast that includes Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Shecky Greene (Shecky Greene . ), Sharon Farrell, and John Phillip Law as cold, calculating executive and head "love machine," Robin Stone, Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine , in the best possible way for people who love awful films, is a disaster from the get-go. and it only gets worse, thank god. Jacqueline Susann lovers have been waiting for this title for a long time, and they won't be disappointed by the pristine transfer here. No extras, though. Local news anchor Robin Stone (John Phillip Law) is so far down International Broadcasting Network's pecking order, he isn't even known to the CEO and Chairman of the Board of the television network, Greg Austin (Robert Ryan). But Austin's wife, Judith (Dyan Cannon), is very much aware of the preternaturally handsome afternoon anchor, and she gives her big daddy the word about Robin. Instantly, Robin is promoted by the risk-taking Austin to network anchor and President of the news division--a move that flips out the President of IBC Programming, veteran broadcaster and executive Danton Miller (Jackie Cooper). Faced with having to work with a cocksure novice, Miller schemes to bring Stone down (especially when he hears Stone wants to produce a news show in primetime). Scrambling for a killer project, Miller latches onto a variety show starring 2nd rate comedian Christie Lane (Shecky Greene ?), which proves immensely popular with audiences. Robin has problems outside of the boardroom and in the bedroom when he hooks up with Amanda (Jodi Wexler), a beautiful model who loves the cold, unfeeling Robin. A success on Lane's show as a commercial spokeswoman, Amanda can't handle Robin's wavering eye, and soon becomes Lane's girl. while the commitment-phobic Stone becomes Judith's lover. And quietly watching over all of this bed-hopping is campy photographer Jerry Nelson (David Hemmings), who befriends Amanda while harboring desires of his own for the conflicted Robin. MAJOR SPOILERS ALERT! I've made it known, ad nauseam , that I consider 1967's Valley of the Dolls , based on Jacqueline Susann's all-time bestseller, one of the greatest films ever made (when they come out with a new, even more deluxe DVD edition--and they 86 that ridiculous Ted Casablanca commentary track for mine -- then you'll know why). And a few months ago, I was lucky enough ( well . ) to review Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough . Rating Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine alongside those two other Susann adaptations is easy: it's nowhere near as entertaining as that genuine masterpiece, Valley of the Dolls , and it miles above that genuine snoozefest, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough --and that's good news for lovers of mind-numbingly bad movies. The Love Machine , published in 1969, didn't reach the heights of Valley of the Dolls ' sales, but it did place as the third highest selling book of 1969, right behind The Godfather and Portnoy's Complaint , unloading hundreds of thousands of hardcovers in its first run alone. With sales like that, and mindful of the millions that the film version of Valley of the Dolls made (despite the general perception to the contrary, VOTD was a huge financial success), it was no surprise that The Love Machine would be quickly snatched up for filming. once Susann pocketed a cool $1.5 million for the film rights (that's 1969 dollars). With expectations high from Columbia Pictures, the movie was released in 1971; however, it famously flopped with a totally disinterested film audience. Certainly what's up on the screen here is quite different than the novel (although that doesn't necessarily indicate a direct correlation to its failure). Tamed considerably for 1971 audiences, with much of the sex and language toned down, and major characters either eliminated or drastically cut back, Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine tries to ape some of Valley of the Dolls 's conventions (super-glossy lensing, an eclectic, rather bizarre cast of familiar faces, a tasteless act every few scenes, and most recognizably, a theme song sung by none other than Dionne Warwick), but fails to create a cohesive experience out of the promising (as in "puerile") material. Love her or hate her, Susann did something right to tap into people's imagination the way she did (timing factors in heavily with her career, as well), and chief among her assets as a writer was her crude energy.