``八卦''
‘Gossip’ Director Jenny Carchman on Cindy Adams, the NY Post and Donald Trump
在Showtime的新纪录片“八卦”中,唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)假装自己的宣传员的唱片被演奏;讲述了汤姆·克鲁斯(Tom Cruise)在与前纽约邮政编辑艾伦(Col Allen)晚餐时掉下来的汤姆·克鲁斯(Tom Cruise)前牙的故事;现年91岁的辛迪·亚当斯(Cindy Adams)捍卫了她的过去和现在与罗伊·科恩(Roy Cohn),伊梅尔达·马科斯(Imelda Marcos),约翰·戈蒂(John Gotti),曼努埃尔·诺里(Manuel Noriega)的友谊,当然还有特朗普。 ”是对权力的核心检查,以及鲁珀特·默多克(Rupert Murdoch)如何通过《纽约邮报》及其小报新闻业从根本上改变新闻行业的基础。四部分的纪录片探讨了纽约市最杰出的八卦专栏作家-LIZ SMITH - LIZ SMITH - GEORGE,GEORGE拉什(Rush),理查德·约翰逊(Richard Johnson)和亚当斯(Adams) - 建立了自己的职业并利用了自己的力量。“八卦”导演制片人珍妮·卡赫曼(Jenny Carchman)对覆盖媒体的媒体并不陌生,因为她在《第四名》中获得了艾美奖提名。财产。”她和利兹·加布斯(Liz Garbus)共同执导了2018年的纪录片,该纪录片跟随纽约时报记者涵盖特朗普总统职位。在“八卦”中,卡赫曼追踪了《纽约邮报》的崛起,以及报纸的八卦部分如何创建像帕里斯·希尔顿和金·卡戴珊这样的名人,同时也允许谎言成为现实。Imimagine的Br\u200b\u200bian Grazer和Ron Howard在该项目中担任该项目的执行制片人凭借Imagine Entertainment的Michael Rosenberg,Imagine Digarneries的Sara Bernstein和Justin Wilkes,以及来自New York Post Entertainment的Troy Searer。与Carchman谈论Adam的坦率,该系列中的丑闻包括什么,以及什么意思是拥有Gossip。您参加这个项目吗?整个系列透过《纽约邮报》的镜头看,所以我的新闻报道很感兴趣。但是,当我被告知我可以访问辛迪·亚当斯(Cindy Adams)时,我想:“好吧,这太神奇了。”因为那时它变成了一个人,S人的历史和这个人的故事。这就是让我兴奋的原因。Adams在该系列中非常坦率。您是如何说服她参加医生的?罗恩·霍华德(Ron Howard)遇到了辛迪(Cindy),他就像“哦,天哪。真是个角色。”他们把它打开了,我认为辛迪觉得“为什么不做系列赛?”在您对亚当斯的一次采访中,她还描述了当酒店Empress Empress Supperillain和Adam的前朋友出卖她时,她如何追随Leona Helmsley。然后,她警告您您如何选择在电影中描绘她,并笑着说:“我会找到你。”您是曾经被亚当斯(Adams)吓倒,还是害怕问她任何事情?是的。我也知道,在那次采访时,当她说那是个玩笑还是她是认真的。我不确定,所以我只是决定选择它。该系列探索了亚当斯与有争议的人物的友谊,例如伊朗·穆罕默德·雷扎·帕拉维(Irress Shah of of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi),罗伊·科恩(Roy Cohn),伊梅尔达·马科斯(Imelda Marcos),约翰·戈蒂(John Gotti),马里奥·库莫(Mario Cuomo) 。在一个po一位同事说:“辛迪是通过如何对待她的棱镜来看待每个人的人之一。因此,如果阿道夫·希特勒(Adolf Hitler)对她很好,那么……”亚当斯(Adams)看过这部电影,她喜欢吗?是的。她喜欢这部电影。听着,她毫不歉意。她对自己的感受和人际关系感到绝对清楚。这些是她的朋友。她非常忠于她的朋友。他们对她没有错。她不需要为他们或他们的行为道歉。实际上,她能够通过与这些人联系来促进自己的职业生涯。我认为她觉得自己在说,就像他们的观点一样。从他们的角度来看,她是记者。”第六页涵盖了许多名人和丑闻。您如何决定将哪些项目包括在该系列中?我布置了一个时间表。我写了辛迪所涵盖的所有大故事,以及不那么大的故事。这些故事将使我们深入了解辛迪(Cindy)n,记者和朋友?然后,我寻找的故事可以帮助我们了解当今的世界,特朗普是特朗普,我们是如何到达这里的?因此,这就是它的决定轨迹。随着我们几十年来,我们无法像哈维·温斯坦那样忽略一些故事。您不能讲一个关于八卦的故事,也不能讲他的故事,因为他是一个大师。而且您无法讲述第六页的故事,也不能讲述巴黎希尔顿的故事,因为她是由第六页创建的。我发现这一系列的内容不太了解名人八卦,而更多地涉及小报记者拥有多少力量。那是故意的吗?是的。这一切都是关于如何操纵媒体。在该系列中,我们了解与八卦专栏作家成为朋友;给人们故事;与人交易故事;拥有可以易货的信息,以获得更多自我利益的宣传。我们看到,从唐纳德·特朗普到金·卡戴珊到哈维·温斯坦,各种类型的名人如何使用媒体。是AboUT,将这种八卦形式作为一个人的自我利益的一种新闻形式。为什么现在要制作这个系列?我认为这将是一个有趣的回顾,回顾了与媒体形成的交易关系的想法。我的意思是,这一直在继续,所以我不想说它是1976年出生的,当时默多克(Murdoch)购买了该帖子,但这就是我们开始故事的地方。我确实认为默多克(Murdoch)以及互联网和电视 - 所有这些作品都在将新闻与娱乐结合在一起的完美风暴中融合在一起,娱乐是卑鄙而无礼的,您主要在八卦中看到这些东西。然后(该组合)成为我们日常生活的一部分。该系列被称为“八卦”,但更多。标题是否被选为吸引观众通常不会观看有关纽约邮报演变及其如何转移新闻的文档的观众的一种方式?每个人八卦,对吗?每个人都喜欢这样做。感觉真爽。这是您的信息你有,它赋予你力量。该系列的重点是如何将该功能与信息一起使用。如果我们吸引(真正广泛的)观众,他们会观看并了解纽约邮报和辛迪·亚当斯和唐纳德·特朗普的历史,那就太好了。但是,无论哪种方式,该系列都试图将这个词“八卦”拆开。像,实际上是什么?我认为我们来到的是这个词是巨大的力量。
In Showtime’s new docuseries “Gossip” a recording of Donald Trump pretending to be his own publicist is played; a story about Tom Cruise’s front teeth falling out during a dinner with former New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allen is told; and 91-year-old Cindy Adams defends her past and present friendships with Roy Cohn, Imelda Marcos, John Gotti, Gen. Manuel Noriega and, of course, Trump.
But beyond salacious Page Six stories and Adams’ questionable friendships, “Gossip,” is at its core an examination of power and how Rupert Murdoch fundamentally shifted the foundation of the news industry via the New York Post and its tabloid journalism.
The four-part docuseries explores how New York City’s most prominent gossip columnists – Liz Smith, George Rush, Richard Johnson and Adams – built their careers and used their power.
“Gossip” director-producer Jenny Carchman is no stranger to covering media outlets, having received an Emmy nomination for her work on “The Fourth Estate.” She and Liz Garbus co-directed the 2018 docuseries, which follows New York Times reporters as they cover the Trump presidency. In “Gossip,” Carchman tracks the rise of The New York Post and how the newspaper’s gossip section created celebutantes like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian while also allowing lies to become reality.
Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard serve as executive producers on the project along with Imagine Entertainment’s Michael Rosenberg, Imagine Documentaries’ Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes, and Troy Searer from New York Post Entertainment.
Variety spoke with Carchman about Adam’s candidness, what scandals to include in the series, and what it means to own gossip.
What drew you to this project?
The whole series looks through the lens of the New York Post, so that interested me because of the journalism piece of it. But when I was told that I’d have access to Cindy Adams, I was like, “Okay, this is amazing.” Because then it became about a person and this person’s history and this person’s story. That’s what excited me.
Adams is very candid in the series. How did you convince her to take part in the doc?
Ron Howard met with Cindy and he was like “Oh my God. What a character.” They hit it off and I think Cindy felt like, “Why not do the series?”
In one interview you did with Adams she also describes how she went after Leona Helmsley when the hotel empress supervillain, and Adam’s former friend, betrayed her. She then warns you about how you chose to portray her in the film, saying with a smile, “I will find you.” Were you ever intimidated by Adams or afraid to ask her anything?
Yes. I also know that in that interview when she said that, I couldn’t tell if it was a joke or if she was serious. I wasn’t sure, so I just decided to go with it.
The series explores Adams’ friendships with controversial figures such as the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Roy Cohn, Imelda Marcos, John Gotti, Mario Cuomo and of course Donald Trump. At one point a colleague says “Cindy’s one of those people who views everybody through the prism of how they treat her. So if Adolf Hitler had been nice to her, well …” Has Adams seen the film, and does she like it?
Yes. She liked the film. Listen, she’s unapologetic. She’s absolutely clear about her feelings and about her relationships. These are her friends. She is very loyal to her friends. They’ve done nothing wrong to her. She doesn’t feel the need to apologize for them or for their behavior. In fact, she was able to further her career by having access to these people. I think she feels like she’s telling it, like it is -- from their point of view. She’s a reporter from their point of view.”
Page Six has covered many celebrities and scandals. How did you decide what items to include in the series?
I laid out a timeline. I put all the big stories that Cindy had covered, and the not so big stories. What were the stories that were going to give us insight into Cindy as a person, reporter, and friend? Then I looked for the stories that would help us understand the world we’re in today, which is Trump and how did we get here? So, that was the deciding trajectory of it. As we get later into the decades, there’s stories you can’t ignore like Harvey Weinstein. You can’t tell a story about gossip and not tell his story because he was a master of it. And you can’t tell the story of Page Six and not tell the story of Paris Hilton, because she was created by Page Six.
What I found surprising is that the series is less about celebrity gossip and more about how much power tabloid journalists have. Was that intentional?
Yes. It’s all about how to manipulate the media. In the series we learn about befriending gossip columnists; giving people stories; trading stories with people; having information that you can barter for more self-interested publicity. We see how celebrities of all types -- from Donald Trump to Kim Kardashian to Harvey Weinstein -- use the media. It’s about, using this form of gossip as a form of journalism for one’s self-interest.
Why make this series now?
I thought that this would be a fascinating look back at where the idea of a transactional relationship with the media formed. I mean, that’s been going on forever so, I don’t want to say that it was born in 1976 when the Post was bought by Murdoch, but that’s where we start our story. I do think Murdoch, along with the internet and television -- all of these pieces came together in this perfect storm of combining news with entertainment and the entertainment is salacious and gratuitous, stuff that you see mainly in gossip. Then (that combination) became part of our everyday life.
The series is called “Gossip,” but it’s about so much more. Was the title chosen as a way to appeal to viewers that wouldn’t normally watch a doc about the evolution of the New York Post and how it shifted journalism?
Everybody gossips, right? Everybody loves to do it. It feels good. It’s information that you have, and it gives you power. The point of this series is how to use that power with the information. It would be great if we appeal to a (really broad) audience and they watch it and learn about the history of the New York Post and Cindy Adams and Donald Trump. But either way, the series is trying to take that word “gossip” and unpack it. Like, what is it actually? And I think where we come to is that the word is enormous power.
"Gossip" debuts Aug. 22 on Showtime
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