Gay Talese

Acting

Gay Talese

Born 1932-02-07 · Ocean City, New Jersey, USA

Gay Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism.

Acting credits

Shortcut to Happiness poster
5.6

In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.

Shortcut to Happiness

2007

Voyeur poster
5.9

Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.

Voyeur

2017

Aktorka poster
10.0

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

Aktorka

2015

Radical Wolfe poster
7.0

With a distinctive style all his own, author and journalist Tom Wolfe reshapes how American stories are told.

Radical Wolfe

2023

The Booksellers poster
7.0

What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive. D.W. Young’s elegant and entertaining documentary, executive produced by Parker Posey, is a lively tour of New York’s book world, past and present, from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand and Argosy book stores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film features a litany of special guests, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of what’s inside.

The Booksellers

2020

Frank Sinatra: The Man and the Myth poster
7.0

Frank Sinatra, aka "Old Blue Eyes," was perhaps the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. This video features a revealing, honest and intimate portrait of Sinatra, from his storied boyhood in Hoboken, New Jersey, through his phenomenal career as a singing idol to hordes of bobbysoxers and his success as an Academy Award-winning actor. See what made Frank tick, and why, in this revealing film.

Frank Sinatra: The Man and the Myth

2004

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists poster
7.1

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

2018

Page One: Inside the New York Times poster
6.9

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

Page One: Inside the New York Times

2011

Post Truth Times poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Post Truth Times

2018

Sex Stars poster
NR

Sex star gives an explosive behind the scenes view of the people who make sexual fantasies come true on the silver screen. Sex Stars is the first feature documentary made by Lech Kowalski.

Sex Stars

1976