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Notorious

Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

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A sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist's most notorious celebrity profiles.

Shining a white-hot spotlight on America's famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, Notorious is a captivating assortment of Maureen Dowd's most compelling style features and profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, including:

  • Leading Hollywood women from Uma Thurman to Jane Fonda to Greta Gerwig
  • Silver screen foxes such as Paul Newman, Idris Elba, and Ralph Fiennes
  • Funny people like Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, and Larry David
  • Fashionistas from Andre Leon Talley to Ann Roth to Tom Ford
  • And media and tech titans like Elon Musk, Bob Iger, and Peter Thiel
  • Notorious is the perfect antidote to our current political malaise and an intimate, gossipy romp through the culture of celebrity from a legend in American journalism.

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      • Library Journal

        October 1, 2024

        Dowd (The Year of Voting Dangerously), Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, gathers interviews and profiles she has conducted with a range of celebrities: Hollywood actors Greta Gerwig and Idris Elba, comics including Tina Fey, fashion leaders such as Ann Roth, and corporate titans like Bob Iger. Prepub Alert.

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Kirkus

        April 15, 2025
        The very rich take center stage in this collection of interviews. VeteranNew York Times columnist Dowd admits from the start that these assignments are more fun than her customary political commentary (she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for coverage of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky liaison). Here, she harks back to her early days as a feature writer for theWashington Star. She trips lightly through talks with actors Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, and Uma Thurman; media moguls Barry Diller, Bob Iger, and Jann Wenner; and others. She also interviews Elon Musk ("before he commandeered Twitter and transformed into a right-wing crank'') and "Trump's tech pal," Peter Thiel. For the most part, Dowd does not directly challenge her sources. Throughout, her experienced journalist's knack for colorful quotes moves her subjects beyond their talking points. She seasons the pieces with additional reporting by those in her subjects' orbits. For the Musk profile, she chats with Mark Zuckerberg--and is served lunch by his butler, Jarvis. The menus at such gatherings are dutifully reported as a running part of the narratives, with a wink and a nod from the author. Diller's butler, Victor, also makes a cameo--we're a long way from mumblecore here, Dorothy. Some comments don't age well; for example, Thiel assures her that "even if you appointed a whole series of conservative Supreme Court justices, I'm not sure that Roe v. Wade would get overturned, ever.'' Sean Penn complains about the quality of the women in his love life, and designer Tom Ford absolves photographer Terry Richardson of #MeToo violations: "Ugh! I love Terry." The book lacks the depth of Lillian Ross'Picture or John Gregory Dunne'sThe Studio, but it's lively and entertaining. A guilty pleasure, yet a pleasure nonetheless.

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