She and Davidson, her co-worker, joined the center in 1982 and were assigned to a three-woman office with Whitney Walton. The Miranda Obsession is a book that lets you have a test of what modern relationships are going through, people wanting to feel a connection and being seeing but not being able to do out to the lack of commitment and empathy now at days Good story, good narration I really like this book She tried to explain. Friends urged him not to go, but Perry wouldnt listen. Today. The City of Covington 2194 Emory Street NW Covington, GA 30014. We never knew whether to believe her or not, says Davidson with a roll of her eyes. She was hip, funny, smart, he says. Once, as he was fishing for information about her, Miranda volunteered that he would meet someone she knew the following Tuesday night. Paul Schrader took the first phone call at his hotel in New Orleans. Following her role on The Miranda Obsession, Brosnahan's second podcast series, Listening In, debuted on Apple Podcasts on May 24th, 2022. It was a friend of hers. 3.5 for the story, 5 for Rachel Brosnahans performance. When these men talk to Miranda, they never feel alone. She didnt want an emerald with diamonds in it. W.. And an emerald ring. I sent it to her to kind of say I was seeing other people., After she failed to appear at their third appointment, I just said thats it, this is some kind of phony, Joel remembers. Monster dramatizes the horrific crimes of a man who brutally slaughtered and in . A call to the local Head Start office leads to a run-down elementary school in a poor area of north Baton Rouge within sight of the levee. The Miranda Obsession By: Jen Silverman Narrated by: Rachel Brosnahan, Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, Morgan Spector, Harry Lloyd, Milo Ventimiglia, full cast Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins 4.3 (160 ratings) Free with 2 month trial A 2 month free trial (limited time offer). The two women remembered that Waltons friends included Peter Wolf, Buck Henry, Art Garfunkel, and others, including two other tennis pros, Yannick Noah and Guillermo Vilas. When he dated other women, says Joel, she would get jealous. Miranda, however, refutes everything, claiming that Karen is mentally ill. Borgia interviews Will, the son, and he also denies any affairs or abuse. When it was ending, she said she was going to start seeing Sting. He pauses. She said she was a gorgeous, wealthy, well-connected model and student named Miranda, and she seduced a slew of famous and powerful menBilly Joel, Warren Beatty, Ted Kennedy, Quincy Jones, Robert DeNiro, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Richard Gere, Eric Clapton, and many moreall of them over the phone. The Miranda Obsession is based on the 1999 Vanity Fair investigation into Grosvenor, who allegedly became close friends with Bob Dylan, Richard Gere, Billy Joel, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Quincy Jones, and other A-listers without ever meeting. In a half-hour with Whitney Walton I sense not the slightest whiff of joie de vivre, of curiosity, of playfulness or whimsy, any of the qualities men have attributed to Miranda Grosvenor; in fact, it is impossible to reconcile this woman with the stories told of her. I dont know, says Cockburn, who spoke off and on to Miranda when he lived in New York in the early 1980s. Get help and learn more about the design. Nor Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band, who attempted to meet her at a Louisiana hotel. Ask Buck [Henry], ask everyoneeveryone was completely obsessed with this girl. Perry had pushed to meet her, but she always had an excuse: She had to study. And there was always sort of a tease, how good-looking she was, wait till you meet my friends. worrying that you didn't do something that you should have. Perrys once longish brown hair is now tastefully short and gray. He had to know. What she did brilliantly was cross-reference everybody. Miranda, in turn, took pains to persuade Henry she really was a rich, gorgeous blonde, an effort that led to the Johnny Carson incident and an even stranger episode in New York. Well-acted audio drama, but the story itself struck me as a not-quite-fully finished unset mess of a thing. She rises to join me in the corridor outside, and I see she is a weary-looking woman around 50, maybe five feet six and 250 pounds. Ultimately Im talking to this girl who says she has no idea who I am, and I have no idea who she was. The Miranda Obsession is written by Jen Silverman (Tales of the City), adapted from the 1999 Vanity Fair article of the same name by Bryan Burrough. Now, he told himself, he knew the real Whitney. I thought, Im falling in love with her.. In the absence of any tape recordingsPerry says he lost hisher words can be found only in letters, including one Walton wrote to Perry after their awful encounter in New York. I saw Rachel Brosnahan on The Tonight Show last night and she made this book sound interesting. I'm glad I stumbled upon this short story. understanding ear. A scripted Audible original podcast series inspired by the true story of Miranda Grosvenor , the mysterious woman who seduced powerful men in Hollywood in the '70s and '80s over the phone, Rachel. It detailed how a mysterious woman, calling herself. She would just ring up and say something flattering. At first [when she called] it was a pain in the ass. This quote shows the disconnect between Miranda's and Clegg's views of the world. She suggested cryptically that he ask that person about the restaurant 21. That Tuesday, Henry was on The Tonight Show, and during a commercial break it hit him. MTV had debuted the previous year, and one night Whitney proclaimed to Perry her fascination with the lead singer of a Canadian rock band whose video was in heavy rotation on the new channel. Look, if you really care about Whitney, he said, if shes not the person that she has made herself out to be, tell me now, so I can prepare myself, so she wont have to see in my face the shock and letdown of knowing Ive been conned.. That afternoon Perry went to the apartment of singer Art Garfunkel to pour out his woes. . She said Whitney Walton really was her real name. After you listen to this look up the real story behind it (or if youre impatient like me look up the real story in the middle of listening to the audible). He didnt know what to expecta model, a college student, a maniac with a carving knife, or the woman he would spend the rest of his life with. There is a feel about that in this Audible Original. You were going to call. He wanted to send her stuff. I remarked on it. I called back, got an operator, but of course [I now know] it was all phony. This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers. Theres lots of people who think they have seen her, and it was not her. In The Tempest, Prospero uses magic as a means to an end. Cooler still, the second episode features Lin-Manuel Miranda talking about "Wait For It," one of the songs from Hamilton. . a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly : compelling motivation See the full definition She wears shocking-pink stretch pants and a matching top, a Slinkylike assemblage of gold bangles and chains around her right wrist, what appear to be diamonds twinkling at her earlobes and knuckles, and the fading remnants of a blond dye job. Audible and the cast did a credible job telling the story from one phone call to another. And as Prospero describes in the first act, his obsessive study of magic is what cost him his dukedom . FIX 003 If you look at the spine, the artist name and title are written twice, upper and lower sides, one upside down compared to the other. If you read the 1999 Vanity Fair article first it's really helpful to understanding this story. Ghostwriting Gloria Swanson: The Strange, Sexually Charged Genesis of a Legendary Autobiography, The Odd David Lynchian Story Behind David Lynchs Cameo in. Musicians, he says, get calls from all kinds of wacko people. Yes, Im also Whitney Walton. He couldnt help himself. I rarely like multi-voice audiobooks but this worked as a sort of radio play and was very effective with the wonderful acting of Rachel Brosnahan in the role of Miranda Grosvenor. She called me in the office, he remembers. I was dating Elle Macpherson at the time.. This went on for five, six months, he says, till finally it got so frustrating, all these aborted meetings, I just kind of let it go. The name Miranda Grosvenor, in fact, is one that any number of famous and respected figures would just as soon forget. I felt like I was listening to private conversations of directors, models, writers, and all that beautiful life under Miranda's vision. By page 25, sick and shaken, she is in her prison. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. In December 1999, Vanity Fair published "The Miranda Obsession," an investigation from writer Bryan Burrough that was quite a jaw-dropper. Loved it! Ad Choices. In time he got over it. The podcast tells the story of the elusive Miranda and the boldface men who fell under her spell, including Buck Henry (Hickey), Billy Joel (Groban), Brian McNally (Llyod), Richard Perry (Ventimiglia) and Paul Schraeder (Spector). In the end, Whitney Walton isnt that hard to locate. Shes not, she said. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Set in the glitzy world of 1980s Hollywood The Miranda Obsession stars Brosnahan as Miranda, along with an A-list cast. I was just livid, incensed, he says. She wasnt ugly. Youve got to finish the story! Garfunkel yelled after Perry as he ran out. Interesting drama, I'm disappointed it's only listed as an audio book, and that seems to mean it's 3 pages long--it seems typically this length of audio book is about 200 pages. It was her social life.. [I said,] I dont know you, whats the catch? [But] she seemed to know a lot of people in my business. And you should have respected that. The two men were so deep in conversation Perry almost forgot his second meeting. He turned, and, to his surprise, there was Whitney. Were talking about someone who can con people into saying they saw her. Perry admits he swooned. They are household names like Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, and Sting. A busy dinnertime crowd was buzzing around him when an aide handed him the phone, saying it was Miranda from New Orleans.. Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmund Safra, Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 193334. Instead of being put off, Perry was in awe of Whitneys talents. She reached him at home for the first time on a night in May 1982. Henrys suspicions were triggered by a picture she had sent him, a photocopy of a leggy blonde model standing on a rock in a magazine fashion layout. Not for me. Walking to the baggage-claim area, he spoke frankly. During the late 1970s, a woman using nothing but a telephone and a sexy voice enticed a number of wealthy Los Angeles men to give her gifts of cash and jewelry. Whats the point of all this? Over the course of several calls, she seemed to come clean. . To convince them she was telling the truth, she played her answering-machine tapes for them at the office. She sounded very funny, charming, and incredibly sexy. She said she was a gorgeous, wealthy, well-connected model and student named Miranda, and she seduced a slew of famous and powerful menBilly Joel, Warren Beatty, Ted Kennedy, Quincy Jones, Robert. I'd have to turn it up to hear the voices and then way down when the music came on. The next time Miranda phoned, I confronted her [about] Whitney Walton, Henry says. . Miranda Grosvenor was the fictitious name of an elusive Louisiana woman who enchanted dozens of famous men with sweet telephone talk in the 1970s and 1980s. Therein lies the mystery even today. But then she also claimed that Peter Wolf had spent a week staying in her small Baton Rouge apartment, where she lived alone with two tiny dogs. Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company, By completing your purchase, you agree to Audibles. Apted mentioned that Richard Gere had a host of his own Miranda stories to tell. We're on guard about this kind of thing in the era of the internet, but back in the 80s and 90s getting a celebrity's home number was much harder to do. She had a tape of Alex, on [her] answering machine, I think, and she played it for me, says McNally. They agreed he would go to her room at seven to meet her. In many ways, Miranda was kind of projecting all over Carrie what the little voice in her head that's been nagging at her was saying. I thought it was a really bonehead move on her part, Henry says. It's amazing how men fell for her act over and over again. fantasies about death. I remember arriving at an airport someplace and Patrick was being paged. Haley told Henry, in Henrys words, to watch your step, I think this is some kind of con job. (Haley confirms the story but remembers no details.). They are music producers, rock stars, writers, and restaurateurs. Id love to jack him. A few days later she brought up the singers name again. I knew her as Whitney Walton, says Billy Joel. She grabbed his arm and begged him to stay. The movie ends with them embracing., She was no model. She was awfully good company. Joel pushed to see her. Pinterest. Its not every day you come across a project like The Miranda Obsession, a fascinating story that is perfectly suited for audio, Kate Navin, Audibles head of scripted content, said in a statement. Law And Order S 15 E 15 Obsession. In the 12 years since bestselling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, The Big Rich) first published his story "The Miranda Obsession" in Vanity Fair, the legend of Miranda has continued to grow and his article has become a true classic of the genre. Funny. Which is what this was. It was 1981, and Schrader, who wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver and went on to direct American Gigolo and other films, was in Louisiana to shoot Cat People, with Nastassja Kin-ski. No conflicts are too hopeless to resolve, no obstacles too painful to overcome, no resolutions too final for last minute reconsideration. Josh Groban, Milo Ventimiglia, John Benjamin Hickey, Morgan Spector, and Harry Lloyd also star One of Hollywoods most glamorous and alluring stories of the 1980s is brought to life by Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan in a thrilling tale of intimacy and self-invention. Yet Henry couldnt dismiss it as a put-on. You know, Quincy thought she was this really large woman., Friesen laughs. She began to cry. . Not one I liked but Im sure others out there might enjoy it. 3.5 - a quick listen on Audible. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 1996. At J.F.K. Perry strained to keep his composure. I didnt want to let her know I was freaked out, that I was devastated, he says. . Rendezvous were arranged, but she never appeared. She said she had done some modeling. Would Perry agree to meet him? In retrospect Perry realizes she had done considerable research on him. Hearing these conversations and how she developed relationships with these powerful men was fascinating. Ive never been there, but I was ready to go. This went on for 15 years. If he wanted to know what she looked like, she suggested he go to the drugstore and buy a bottle of Clairol ashblond coloring; she was the model on the box, she said. . The dark rise of serial killer true crime has moral weight for those who aim to reflect a God of light and life. "The Miranda Obsession," a drama inspired by the story of Whitney Walton, aka Miranda Grosvenor, and the men she enticed without ever meeting them, is in production and scheduled to premiere on . It was just someone with a switchboard and a vivid imagination.. Listen to article. She gave him a nickname, Sicko.. Thats the worst, I think. Walton, they say, returned from one vacation, in St. Barts, claiming she had spent time with Joel and had been present when he met Brinkley. The door was unlocked and he pushed it open. By turns enticing and voyeuristic, gripping and empathetic, this complex and nuanced character-driven drama examines the lengths to which we go to achieve intimacy and connection with each other, and the lengths some of us will go to feel something real. So we started talking, McNally remembers. The photographer Peter Beard, who has dabbled in film projects over the years, read a screenplay with a similar story about 20 years ago. Im Whitney Walton, a woman sitting behind a corner desk says. She dumped me! he yelps today. When the album Joel was working on at the time was finished, the two women believed that its title, Uptown Girl, referred to Walton, not Joels new love at the time, Christie Brinkley. and introduce thew. Recap /. Once, they listened as she called Manhattan real-estate brokers to help him find an apartment in the city. It would take 10 hours to tell it all. This leads me to think that front cover and rear cover were meant to be upside down one with the other. She begged him to look beyond her lies. She just had an incredibly sexy voice and she had a great game, delivery, come-on. She said they were great friends. In short, magic is capable of great harm. Throughout his long and exciting life, Fredo brought joy to every space he entered. The woman on the line introduced herself as Miranda Grosvenor, and before Schrader could get rid of her, she had somehow managed to keep him talking for 20 minutes, gossiping about Hollywood and a number of famous men she seemed to know all about." From Vanity Fair "Natalie Wood Investigation Vanity Fair." From Carrie Hefferman I dont know anything about it. I begin to list the names of Mirandas many confidants. She said she was fromwhere?Louisiana? It wasnt sexual; it was intimate, like he was courting her. I cant believe this is based on a true story. The pie turned into a tasty-but-odd, lumpy, cold banana soup floating around in a pie crust. There ensued the familiar pattern. Scrap Paper Pictures also executive produced the upcoming podcasts The Miranda Obsession and Listening In, starring Brosnahan, which will air in 2022 and has a development slate of film . An odd look crossed Friesens face. On a good day, she wrote, I feel like a shipwrecked person spotting the sight of some nearing shore: a taste in the wind, a softness in the light, a sudden passage of words. A local prosecutor, urged by the young mans family to investigate, found the woman was a fraud. Personallyand I didnt say this to him, not till after, when Patrick would talk about herI kept seeing this image of this lonely, very fat girl sitting in a room. While we all want to be heard and understood, Im still surprised she had such a range of the rich and famous waiting for her calls. Engaging writing but overall the story isn't much to go on aboutin fact I don't remember much of it except that many famous dudes fell in love with a woman over the phone. Still, he kept talking to her for months after. unwanted thoughts about hurting yourself or others. Miranda is an art student and views the world from a deeply artistic perspective. Henry determined to find out who Miranda Grosvenor really was. Nominated Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. . Nor, in fact, did most of the dozens of well-known and well-to-do men on both coasts who answered calls from Miranda during the 1980s and suddenly found themselves drawn into the most fascinating, invigorating telephone conversations several of them say they ever enjoyed. She knew his rsum by heart and within minutes had coaxed him into a conversation about his passion for 1950s doo-wop records. The Miranda Obsession Audible Audiobook - Original recording Jen Silverman (Author), Rachel Brosnahan (Narrator), & 7 more 10 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Audio CD $19.99 1 New from $19.99 The music and other effects worked very well also. She networked everything. But she did send him a photo, cut out of a magazine, of a lithe, voluptuous model. Please try again. By the fall Perry found himself drawn even further into Whitneys calling game. Her theatre work includes. The rest of the book, up to a tragic end, shows how both of them dealt with the weeks that followed. [I thought] Gil was doing this just to fuck with me. It was a knife through my heart, Perry says simply. Love is so easy in the movies. Both men realized it had to be the same woman. Henry was staying at the Essex House on Central Park South, to which he returned late one Friday night after a long rehearsal as host of Saturday Night Live. Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. Jen is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and an Affiliated Artist with New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Space on Ryder Farm, and the Playwrights Center. But she wasnt, he realized in a moment of self-loathing and almost unbearable sadness, a woman he could spend his life with. Youre right if youre thinking Miranda Grosvenor is hardly unique. Writers Sam Kashner, Patricia Bosworth and Bryan Burrough, three of Vanity Fair's most celebrated authors, share their stories of one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries. It has taken considerable prodding to get Perry to talk about the events that, friends say, preoccupy him to this day. He was surprised to learn that one of her closest phone pals was his friend Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band; when he called Wolf, the singer freely told him of his own infatuation with Miranda. Wolf related a story similar to Henrys Essex House experience. She had gone too far, she didnt know how to deal with it. He mailed her an airline ticket and reserved a room for her at the Park Lane on Central Park South; at her insistence, he promised to stay at a different hotel, the Sherry-Netherland, not far away, on Fifth Avenue. How to use obsession in a sentence. A short book, fantastically narrated, enthralling and strange and downright gripping. 73.9K subscribers Hear Episode 1 of the Audible Original The Miranda Obsession with Rachel Brosnahan as Miranda Grosvenor and John Benjamin Hickey as Buck Henry. I liked it well enough. He says he remained angry at Friesen and Henry, but their allegations nagged at him. Clegg is obsessed with physically controlling Miranda, both in a sexual sense but also as a 'Collector' whereas Jed's obsession is with winning over Joe's mind to God and platonic love. But if Miranda Grosvenor is dead and gone, her memory lives on. There was a problem with her father. I press, saying I am certain she is Miranda Grosvenor. I think they are mainly lengthy magazine articles. But I dont think I was treated fairly. referencing Michael & Miranda . Perry had just broken off a long-term relationship with an actress, and as spring turned to summer he found himself increasingly drawn to the witty, wise woman on the phone. How did she do it? You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. An enigmatic enchanting woman, seems to have a number of powerful men in her grasp. Just before seven Perry walked to the Park Lane. Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2022. Hmm. Have you ever seen the two season TV show Imposters on Bravo? Whitney Walton asked me to give you a call., That blew my mind, Perry says. Maybe the performers can be nominated for a spoken word Grammy, Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022. But he knows what people may say about a man who fell for a woman he had never met. a month after 30 days. I had never even heard of this story, so down the Google rabbit hole I went. The initial suspect is Melinda Phelps, who had filed a sexual harassment suit against him; but DNA links Karen Nicks, a friend of Shea's wife Miranda, to the murder weapon. Right now Connecticut is home base for a woman who represents herself as a Saudi princess and who has lured several prominent Wall Streeters into business deals; she was recently unmasked by The Denver Post after making an unsuccessful $450 million bid to buy the Denver Nuggets basketball team. Miranda Grosvenor calls all of them. The narration was excellent and the sound effects really elevated the listening experience. She would just call you up, says Schrader, and she was very, very charming. But her big romance, Abel says with a grin, was Billy Joel. Im adorable and so are you. And then the relationship kind of petered out.. I couldnt begin to tell you the whole story. The Miranda Obsession She said she was a beautiful, well-connected blonde named Miranda, and she enchanted an astonishing circle of powerful menBilly Joel, Paul Schrader, Buck Henry, and. Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan is the star and executive producer of this dramatic podcast series from writer Jen Silverman, which brings to life a thrilling tale of intimacy and self-invention inspired by one of Hollywood's most alluring stories of the 1980s. . Eric Clapton. . Not long after the Michigan incident, and only after months of pleading and cajoling, Perry persuaded Whitney to meet him in New York. The woman thought for a moment. She would gab away, and she was very funny. I never found out exactly who she was., Nor, apparently, did Robert De Niro, who, friends say, also took Miranda Grosvenors phone calls. The Night and the Moment. Yes, Apted confirmed, he had talked on the phone with Miranda, too; no, he didnt know who she was, either. The Miranda Obsession ultimately reveals the true identity of the Louisiana woman who was able to cultivate such a strong emotional connection with her long-distance phone companions. Tickets for Josh's show at The Greek on August 2 are available at JoshGroban.com . . If I were back in college I would do a paper in Psychology class about the true story behind this audible original. Joel insists he never actually sent her any gifts of note only a stuffed animal perhaps. She asked him to wear a blindfold. . Josh Groban, Milo Ventimiglia, John Benjamin Hickey, Morgan Spector, and Harry Lloyd also star Read allOne of Hollywoods most glamorous and alluring stories of the 1980s is brought to life by Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan in a thrilling tale of intimacy and self-invention. I told him she was a phony, says Henry. Box 1527 Covington, GA 30015 Within minutes he was standing before her door. It was an act. 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