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Scarlett Johansson: The Illustrated Biography
Born in 1985 in New York, Johansson has already achieved a cinematic career of stellar proportion. Searching for the essence of her luminous star quality, this book takes a critical look at her work, and traces her transformation from talented child actress to Hollywood icon.
128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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Chris Roberts
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Chris Roberts lives in West London. He has written about music, films and books for innumerable publications and websites and interviewed everyone from David Bowie to Janet Jackson. He was the editor of Idle Worship, hailed in the New York Times as ‘the most original book about rock ‘n’ roll ever’, and edited Blondie's Panic of Girls magazine at the band's request.
Often appearing on TV and radio, he has also published books on Kate Moss, Lou Reed, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Abba, Talk Talk, Scarlett Johansson, Pharrell Williams, the Gothic arts and many others.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Chris Roberts lives in West London. He has written about music, films and books for innumerable publications and websites and interviewed everyone from David Bowie to Janet Jackson. He was the editor of Idle Worship, hailed in the New York Times as ‘the most original book about rock ‘n’ roll ever’, and edited Blondie's Panic of Girls magazine at the band's request.
Often appearing on TV and radio, he has also published books on Kate Moss, Lou Reed, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Abba, Talk Talk, Scarlett Johansson, Pharrell Williams, the Gothic arts and many others.
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January 15, 2015
Very few times in reading a book have I wanted to slap the author.
This is one of those books.
The low rating is NO reflection on the revelation that is Scarlett Johansson or her flighty career.
I'm a worshipper of Ms Johansson's beauty AND talent (I guess that should be Mrs now...)
No, this all falls on author, Chris Roberts.
A biographer should remain impartial and deliver a factorial biography relating to a celebrity exempt of bias, status and above all, opinion!
Chris Roberts, NO ONE will read this book to hear what YOU think!
We may read this book to know how Scarlett got started, what her motivations were, who she previously worked with, what SHE thought of her performances, what her peers thought of her, how her critics received her work, how her movies performed at the box office, etc, etc.
What we DON'T need is your opinions that intrude upon your prose needlessly.
We don't care if YOU thought The Island was a mess, or that you think Chris Evans is a 'minor' star, or that you think her short fated relationship with Jared Leto was 'ill-advised' OR that you think his 30 million plus selling band is 'dreadful,' OR that your sarky and very contemptuous attitude pervades almost every single paragraph of the book - and on, and on, and on, it goes....
It's BEAUTIFULLY published and presented with a VERY responsible choice of pictures of Scarlett with NO smut or cheapness involved and if you want a glossy hardback keepsake of Mrs Johansson, this is delightful -
- but the writer's overwhelming sense of self worth interrupts each and every page.
Ultimately, it sounds like a journalist sick of his lot in his life.
Let me finish on a positive if I can.
Write a biography on a star, keep to the facts and reign in your own personal opinions.
It's the star on the cover your readers want to know about - not YOU.
This is one of those books.
The low rating is NO reflection on the revelation that is Scarlett Johansson or her flighty career.
I'm a worshipper of Ms Johansson's beauty AND talent (I guess that should be Mrs now...)
No, this all falls on author, Chris Roberts.
A biographer should remain impartial and deliver a factorial biography relating to a celebrity exempt of bias, status and above all, opinion!
Chris Roberts, NO ONE will read this book to hear what YOU think!
We may read this book to know how Scarlett got started, what her motivations were, who she previously worked with, what SHE thought of her performances, what her peers thought of her, how her critics received her work, how her movies performed at the box office, etc, etc.
What we DON'T need is your opinions that intrude upon your prose needlessly.
We don't care if YOU thought The Island was a mess, or that you think Chris Evans is a 'minor' star, or that you think her short fated relationship with Jared Leto was 'ill-advised' OR that you think his 30 million plus selling band is 'dreadful,' OR that your sarky and very contemptuous attitude pervades almost every single paragraph of the book - and on, and on, and on, it goes....
It's BEAUTIFULLY published and presented with a VERY responsible choice of pictures of Scarlett with NO smut or cheapness involved and if you want a glossy hardback keepsake of Mrs Johansson, this is delightful -
- but the writer's overwhelming sense of self worth interrupts each and every page.
Ultimately, it sounds like a journalist sick of his lot in his life.
Let me finish on a positive if I can.
Write a biography on a star, keep to the facts and reign in your own personal opinions.
It's the star on the cover your readers want to know about - not YOU.
March 20, 2017
Good overview of her life.............written for a teenage crowd.
December 31, 2021
A non fiction account of the early years of scarlett's life. Lots of pictures of this beautiful actress.
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