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Conversations: Famous Women Speak Out
by Marian Christy September 1998
ISBN 1-57129-061-3 • $15.95 sc
She has a reputation for telling all, at least where her subjects are concerned: what
they're wearing, what they're drinking, how far they've come since being found at
a soda fountain on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. She has been dubbed a
"psycho-journalist" for her ability to cut through celebrities' usual cheery veneer
and get to the personal grit. In these interviews, Marian Christy's remarkable
talent finds the motor and spark behind famous women's success: what propelled
them into their orbit, what is behind their success, and what are the obstacles they
had to overcome. This is a remarkably courageous, inspiring series of interviews
of women discussing difficulties that are both timeless and common to women
everywhere.
Marian Christy is well known for her syndicated column "Conversations" that ran
in the Boston Globe. The column delivered far more than a classic interview;
Christy ventured into the emotional world of her subjects. Most impressive is
Christy's talent for getting famous women to reveal their truest feelings, their
emotions, their attitudes, their motivations—much in the same way a psychiatrist
would. The resulting essays are unfailing human reflections of self, which in total,
are reflections not only of the interviewee, but the people around us and the world
in which we live. "I'm not interested in power," Christy says. "I'm interested in the
pain behind the power. Pain is the oneness that connects us all." This is not a work
of gossip but of human experience and womens' empowerment.
Marian Christy, currently the Media Director of Special Collections at Boston
University, is the recipient of thirty prestigious journalism awards during her
twenty-six-year tenure as an editor and top Boston Globe syndicated columnist
(1965-1991). Honored by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of America's top five
journalists, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Invasions of Privacy:
Notes from a Celebrity Journalist (Addison-Wesley). As well as working as
Fashion Editor for the Boston Globe for many years, Christy worked for the New
York-based Fairchild Publications where she wrote features for Women's Wear
Daily and was a syndicated columnist for the New York Times. She was nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
