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Any film buff worth their celluloid and interested in the history of mass media
journalism, cannot fail to appreciate the extraordinary, 563 page plus photos, tome that VARIETY “mugg” Peter Besas has published on the full “unauthorized” history of America’s great show-biz bible, VARIETY, and how the legendary Sime Silverman began his publishing empire on a wing and a prayer way back in pre-prohibition NY in 1905 at the
Knickerbocker
When William Randolph Hurst offered Sime $1,200,000 for the paper, Sime turned him down, saying, “If I wanted to turn VARIETY into a puff sheet, I could give it to my son and have him make that much in a year.”
– see ACADEMY Review on Page 22
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or call Constable’s on 020 7437 1945