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Frank Sanello

January 01, 1970

Frank Sanello (born May 17, 1952) is an author and journalist who writes about the entertainment industry, cultural anthropology, politics, social issues, and revisionist history.

Frank Sanello
Born (1952-05-17) 17 May 1952 (age 71)[1]
Joliet, Illinois, USA
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA (English literature)
MFA (Screenwriting)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago

Early life and career edit

Born and raised in Joliet, Illinois, he graduated from University of Chicago with a BA in English literature, and from University of California, Los Angeles with an MFA in screenwriting.[2]

Before becoming an author, Sanello wrote for various outlets such as The New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.[2][3][4][5] He was also a reporter for People Weekly and Us Weekly.[6] In 1986 he worked as a segment producer pre-interviewing guests for the host of The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers.

His two weekly columns about the entertainment industries were syndicated internationally by United Media in the 1980s and 1990s. During that time, Sanello interviewed dozens of film and TV executives and hundreds of actors, producers and directors.[2]

Reviews edit

Publication of The Opium Wars (2002) in China was unusual because Chinese scholars and government watchdogs typically rejected Western accounts of their history as biased and Eurocentric. The book attempted to offer a more balanced account of the two conflicts fought between Britain and China in the mid-19th century. In his critique of The Opium Wars in the East Asian Review of Books, Wayne E. Yang wrote: "Those who believe the dictum that 'those who fail to learn [from] history are doomed to repeat it' have fodder in W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello's The Opium Wars."[7] In a review for the American Library Association's Booklist, Jay Freeman wrote: "[This] account of the causes, military campaigns, and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre, and deeply unsettling." Publishers Weekly wrote, "Hanes (Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization) and film author and former Los Angeles Daily News critic Sanello have teamed up to produce this fine popular account... The book covers a familiar time and place in history, but the authors make some nice analogies between the brutal economics and empire of the 19th century, and 21st-century forms of money, politics and war."[8]

The cautionary nature of Sanello’s Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America (2005) was noted in a review in the gay magazine, Edge Boston: "More than 250 crystal users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book. One after another, stories were told of lives destroyed by a seductive drug." As a gay activist, Sanello has lectured on methamphetamine abuse in the gay community and was a guest-speaker on the topic at a conference and seminar in San Francisco. Tweakers was the source of a feature-length video of the same name in 2007, and featured grim, on-camera accounts of recovering and active methamphetamine addicts, adapted from case histories in Sanello's book.

Another nonfiction book by Sanello, The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers, garnered international interest because of The Da Vinci Code’s fictional treatment of the Medieval monastic order. Sanello’s examination of the Templars, which debunked myths about their survival today as Freemasons, was also published in the Czech Republic and elsewhere.

The author taught college-extension courses at the Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles on how to write and find a publisher for a nonfiction book. He also taught English composition at the University of Phoenix.

Libel case edit

In 1999, Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman sued Sanello and Carol Publishing for $30 million, for defamation.[9][10] In Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone, (Carol Publishing, 1997) Sanello had quoted comments a jury later determined had been made by William Skrzyniarz, a partner at the firm which represented Stone, concerning Stone's private life.[11]

The libel suit was generated by a brief passage in Sanello's biography of Stone: "Although I had identified myself as Stone's biographer, one of Meyer's partners, William Skrzyniarz, told me after two bottles of Merlot on New Year's Eve 1996, 'When Sharon wants someone, she rents a hotel room and tells him exactly when and where to show up. She makes it clear it's a one-time opportunity, take it or leave it. She's made the move on some major names.' Skrzyniarz became circumspect when I asked him to name names."[12]

The lawsuit was not intended to determine if the information Sanello quoted about Stone's private life in his biography of the actress was true because Stone did not sue the publisher or her biographer. The lawsuit was filed by Rosenfeld, Meyer, & Susman to prove that a member of its firm, Skrzyniarz, had not told Sanello information about the actress' private life. The jury determined that Sanello and the publisher had not defamed Skrzyniarz or Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman. Sanello and the publisher were also acquitted of another charge, tortious interference, that alleged Sanello's biography had prompted the firm's star client to seek alternate counsel and thus had economically damaged the firm.[13]

The case did not involve determining whether or not the comments about Stone's private life attributed to Skrzyniarz by Sanello were true. The suit alleged that Skrzyniarz had never made the comments quoted by Sanello in Stone's bio and consequently that the publisher and author had libeled Skrzyniarz and his law firm.[14]

After a four-week trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, Calif., the jury found in favor of the publisher of Naked Instinct, Schragis, and the author, Sanello. The jurors determined that the law firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman had not been libeled or economically damaged. The legal term for economic damage is "unlawful interference with economic interests."[15]

Works edit

  • Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology, Taylor Pub. Co., 1996, ISBN 978-0-87833-911-2.
  • Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone, Carol Pub. Group, 1997, ISBN 978-1-55972-402-9.
  • Eddie Murphy: The Life and Times of a Comic on the Edge, Carol Pub. Group, 1997, ISBN 978-1-55972-437-1.
  • Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life, Pinnacle Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7860-0506-2.
  • Stallone: A Rocky Life, Mainstream, 1998, ISBN 978-1-84018-113-5.
  • Julia Roberts, Mainstream Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-1-84018-270-5.
  • Halle Berry: A Stormy Life, Virgin Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85227-092-6.
  • Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction, Taylor Trade Pub., 2003, ISBN 978-0-87833-268-7.
  • The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers, Taylor Trade Pub., 2003, ISBN 978-0-87833-302-8.
  • The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another, Hanes, W. Travis III and Frank Sanello. Sourcebooks, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57071-931-8, ISBN 978-1-4022-0149-3.
  • Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America, Alyson Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55583-884-3.
  • To Kill a King: A History of Royal Murders and Assassinations from Ancient Egypt to the Present, CreateSpace, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4499-8273-7.
  • The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler: Translated and edited by Frank Sanello, CreateSpace, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4775-8172-8.

Reviews edit

  • "The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello", Asian Review of Books, Wayne E. Yang
  • "Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology", Publishers Weekly, 01/01/1996
  • "THE OPIUM WARS: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another", Publishers Weekly, 09/16/2002

References edit

  1. ^ "Frank Sanello". OpenISBN. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Seipp, Catherine (November 3, 1997). "Whipping boy to the stars". Salon.com. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  3. ^ Sanello, Frank (May 29, 1992). . Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2013 – via Highbeam Research.
  4. ^ "Archives: Frank Sanello". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  5. ^ "Archives: Frank Sanello". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  6. ^ Haller, Scot; Grant, James; Greene, Johnny; Sanello, Frank (September 23, 1985). "Fighting for Life". People. Vol. 23, no. 13. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  7. ^ Yang, Wayne E. (December 3, 2002). "The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello". Asian Review of Books. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  8. ^ "The Opium Wars Review". Publishers Weekly.
  9. ^ "Stone biographer beats libel rap". New York Post. 6 October 1999.
  10. ^ Harris, Dana (7 April 2000). "Pic backer gets $3.4 mil settlement". Daily Variety.
  11. ^ O'Neill. Ann. "Law Firm Is Loser in Stone Bio Flap." Los Angeles Times Retrieved 7 July 2013
  12. ^ Sanello, Frank. Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone (1997) Carol Publishing, p. xxiii
  13. ^ O'Neill, Ann W. "Law Firm Is Loser in Flap Over Stone Bio" (10 October 1995) Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 July 2013
  14. ^ "Naked Truth from Sharon Stone". The New York Post. 28 August 1998.
  15. ^ "Unlawful Interference with Economic Interests Definition". Tort and Personal Injury Law Dictionary. duhaime.org.

Further reading edit

  • Beeching, Jack (1975) The Chinese Opium Wars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. ISBN 978-0-15-117650-2
  • Booth, Martin (1998) Opium. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-18643-6
  • Fay, Peter Ward (1975.) Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates. North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4714-3

External links edit

  • Is TV Trivializing The Holocaust?
  • Tweakers at IMDb  

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This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject It may need editing to conform to Wikipedia s neutral point of view policy There may be relevant discussion on the talk page July 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Frank Sanello born May 17 1952 is an author and journalist who writes about the entertainment industry cultural anthropology politics social issues and revisionist history Frank SanelloBorn 1952 05 17 17 May 1952 age 71 1 Joliet Illinois USALanguageEnglishNationalityAmericanEducationBA English literature MFA Screenwriting Alma materUniversity of Chicago Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Reviews 2 1 Libel case 3 Works 4 Reviews 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksEarly life and career editBorn and raised in Joliet Illinois he graduated from University of Chicago with a BA in English literature and from University of California Los Angeles with an MFA in screenwriting 2 Before becoming an author Sanello wrote for various outlets such as The New York Times Syndicate the Los Angeles Daily News the Los Angeles Times The Washington Post The Boston Globe the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune 2 3 4 5 He was also a reporter for People Weekly and Us Weekly 6 In 1986 he worked as a segment producer pre interviewing guests for the host of The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers His two weekly columns about the entertainment industries were syndicated internationally by United Media in the 1980s and 1990s During that time Sanello interviewed dozens of film and TV executives and hundreds of actors producers and directors 2 Reviews editPublication of The Opium Wars 2002 in China was unusual because Chinese scholars and government watchdogs typically rejected Western accounts of their history as biased and Eurocentric The book attempted to offer a more balanced account of the two conflicts fought between Britain and China in the mid 19th century In his critique of The Opium Wars in the East Asian Review of Books Wayne E Yang wrote Those who believe the dictum that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it have fodder in W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello s The Opium Wars 7 In a review for the American Library Association s Booklist Jay Freeman wrote This account of the causes military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing frequently macabre and deeply unsettling Publishers Weekly wrote Hanes Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization and film author and former Los Angeles Daily News critic Sanello have teamed up to produce this fine popular account The book covers a familiar time and place in history but the authors make some nice analogies between the brutal economics and empire of the 19th century and 21st century forms of money politics and war 8 The cautionary nature of Sanello s Tweakers How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America 2005 was noted in a review in the gay magazine Edge Boston More than 250 crystal users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book One after another stories were told of lives destroyed by a seductive drug As a gay activist Sanello has lectured on methamphetamine abuse in the gay community and was a guest speaker on the topic at a conference and seminar in San Francisco Tweakers was the source of a feature length video of the same name in 2007 and featured grim on camera accounts of recovering and active methamphetamine addicts adapted from case histories in Sanello s book Another nonfiction book by Sanello The Knights Templars God s Warriors the Devil s Bankers garnered international interest because of The Da Vinci Code s fictional treatment of the Medieval monastic order Sanello s examination of the Templars which debunked myths about their survival today as Freemasons was also published in the Czech Republic and elsewhere The author taught college extension courses at the Gay amp Lesbian Center in Los Angeles on how to write and find a publisher for a nonfiction book He also taught English composition at the University of Phoenix Libel case edit In 1999 Rosenfeld Meyer amp Susman sued Sanello and Carol Publishing for 30 million for defamation 9 10 In Naked Instinct The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone Carol Publishing 1997 Sanello had quoted comments a jury later determined had been made by William Skrzyniarz a partner at the firm which represented Stone concerning Stone s private life 11 The libel suit was generated by a brief passage in Sanello s biography of Stone Although I had identified myself as Stone s biographer one of Meyer s partners William Skrzyniarz told me after two bottles of Merlot on New Year s Eve 1996 When Sharon wants someone she rents a hotel room and tells him exactly when and where to show up She makes it clear it s a one time opportunity take it or leave it She s made the move on some major names Skrzyniarz became circumspect when I asked him to name names 12 The lawsuit was not intended to determine if the information Sanello quoted about Stone s private life in his biography of the actress was true because Stone did not sue the publisher or her biographer The lawsuit was filed by Rosenfeld Meyer amp Susman to prove that a member of its firm Skrzyniarz had not told Sanello information about the actress private life The jury determined that Sanello and the publisher had not defamed Skrzyniarz or Rosenfeld Meyer amp Susman Sanello and the publisher were also acquitted of another charge tortious interference that alleged Sanello s biography had prompted the firm s star client to seek alternate counsel and thus had economically damaged the firm 13 The case did not involve determining whether or not the comments about Stone s private life attributed to Skrzyniarz by Sanello were true The suit alleged that Skrzyniarz had never made the comments quoted by Sanello in Stone s bio and consequently that the publisher and author had libeled Skrzyniarz and his law firm 14 After a four week trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica Calif the jury found in favor of the publisher of Naked Instinct Schragis and the author Sanello The jurors determined that the law firm of Rosenfeld Meyer amp Susman had not been libeled or economically damaged The legal term for economic damage is unlawful interference with economic interests 15 Works editSpielberg The Man the Movies the Mythology Taylor Pub Co 1996 ISBN 978 0 87833 911 2 Naked Instinct The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone Carol Pub Group 1997 ISBN 978 1 55972 402 9 Eddie Murphy The Life and Times of a Comic on the Edge Carol Pub Group 1997 ISBN 978 1 55972 437 1 Jimmy Stewart A Wonderful Life Pinnacle Books 1997 ISBN 978 0 7860 0506 2 Stallone A Rocky Life Mainstream 1998 ISBN 978 1 84018 113 5 Julia Roberts Mainstream Publishing 2000 ISBN 978 1 84018 270 5 Halle Berry A Stormy Life Virgin Books 2003 ISBN 978 1 85227 092 6 Reel V Real How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction Taylor Trade Pub 2003 ISBN 978 0 87833 268 7 The Knights Templars God s Warriors the Devil s Bankers Taylor Trade Pub 2003 ISBN 978 0 87833 302 8 The Opium Wars The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another Hanes W Travis III and Frank Sanello Sourcebooks 2002 ISBN 978 1 57071 931 8 ISBN 978 1 4022 0149 3 Tweakers How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America Alyson Books 2005 ISBN 978 1 55583 884 3 To Kill a King A History of Royal Murders and Assassinations from Ancient Egypt to the Present CreateSpace 2011 ISBN 978 1 4499 8273 7 The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler Translated and edited by Frank Sanello CreateSpace 2012 ISBN 978 1 4775 8172 8 Reviews edit The Opium Wars by W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello Asian Review of Books Wayne E Yang Spielberg The Man the Movies the Mythology Publishers Weekly 01 01 1996 THE OPIUM WARS The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another Publishers Weekly 09 16 2002References edit Frank Sanello OpenISBN Retrieved 15 July 2013 a b c Seipp Catherine November 3 1997 Whipping boy to the stars Salon com Retrieved July 9 2013 Sanello Frank May 29 1992 Weaver combines toughness and class Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on April 16 2016 Retrieved July 9 2013 via Highbeam Research Archives Frank Sanello Los Angeles Times Retrieved July 9 2013 Archives Frank Sanello Chicago Tribune Retrieved July 9 2013 Haller Scot Grant James Greene Johnny Sanello Frank September 23 1985 Fighting for Life People Vol 23 no 13 Retrieved July 9 2013 Yang Wayne E December 3 2002 The Opium Wars by W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello Asian Review of Books Retrieved July 9 2013 The Opium Wars Review Publishers Weekly Stone biographer beats libel rap New York Post 6 October 1999 Harris Dana 7 April 2000 Pic backer gets 3 4 mil settlement Daily Variety O Neill Ann Law Firm Is Loser in Stone Bio Flap Los Angeles Times Retrieved 7 July 2013 Sanello Frank Naked Instinct The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone 1997 Carol Publishing p xxiii O Neill Ann W Law Firm Is Loser in Flap Over Stone Bio 10 October 1995 Los Angeles Times Retrieved 7 July 2013 Naked Truth from Sharon Stone The New York Post 28 August 1998 Unlawful Interference with Economic Interests Definition Tort and Personal Injury Law Dictionary duhaime org Further reading editBeeching Jack 1975 The Chinese Opium Wars Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers ISBN 978 0 15 117650 2 Booth Martin 1998 Opium St Martin s Press ISBN 0 312 18643 6 Fay Peter Ward 1975 Opium War 1840 1842 Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates North Carolina Press ISBN 0 8078 4714 3External links editIs TV Trivializing The Holocaust Tweakers at IMDb nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Frank Sanello amp oldid 1189708546, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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