In short, magic is capable of great harm. Walton, after earlier jobs as a librarian and a consumer-fraud investigator for the city, had joined the center a year earlier as a counselor. [I said,] I dont know you, whats the catch? [But] she seemed to know a lot of people in my business. The photographs and letters didnt hurt. Im terribly sorry, Whitney, Perry said. Josh 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. Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company, By completing your purchase, you agree to Audibles. Somethings going on. Henry confided his doubts to a friend, who mentioned that Jack Haley Jr., the Thats Entertainment producer who was once married to Liza Minnelli, had taken Mirandas calls, too. Paul Schrader took the first phone call at his hotel in New Orleans. She called it jacking men. He had to know. I liked the description better than the actual performance. THE MIRANDA OBSESSION WINGATE MEDIA. Before long, theyre giving her insider tidbitson new mergers, movies, albums, restaurantsand shes collecting this information like the currency it is. Probably no one other than Walton knows exactly why Miranda Grosvenor and her alter egos retired, if thats what happened. And Brianna., She was proud that she knew famous people, says Davidson. Im so confused on this-I think I need to listen again! The music and other effects worked very well also. She knew who was where and who was going to do what project. Looking at her credit card changes, the detectives find that Miranda did have a fling with her trainer, Thomas, who hints that she was also seeing a . It said simply, You have broken my windows and crashed through all my doors. Oh, and she used Ariana, says Genny Abel. Once, they listened as she called Manhattan real-estate brokers to help him find an apartment in the city. Intrigued, Schrader invited Miranda to call back, and she did, again and again. He got angry at me and stopped talking to me. They talked a little, and then more. I remarked on it. The narration was excellent and the sound effects really elevated the listening experience. 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. All rights reserved. She sounded very funny, charming, and incredibly sexy. As Perrys eyes adjusted to the darkened room, he saw a short, frumpy woman in her 30s, maybe 30 pounds overweight, with a large mole on her right cheek. 3.5 stars. But it is also a love story. Brosnahan, who is best known for her Emmy-winning turn in Prime Videos The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, will executive produce under her Scrap Paper Pictures banner. Whitney Walton asked me to give you a call., That blew my mind, Perry says. This is a true-life psychological thriller based on personal accounts from some of the people involved. You couldnt get her on the subject. She asked him to wear a blindfold. I saw Rachel Brosnahan on The Tonight Show last night and she made this book sound interesting. She called me in the office, he remembers. It was just extraordinary., Whatever doubts McNally had about Mirandas contacts evaporated when she phoned him one day at Odeon. It was interesting, but I kept thinking why and how. It wasnt sex talk, everyone agrees, but it was flirty, gossipy, and more than a little mysterious. Theres a lot of people named Whitney Walton This is intrusive, this is invasive. The men who talked to her, a number of whom now decline to confirm they did so, came from all walks of the high life; they were actors and directors, rock stars and record producers, athletes and politicians, even a journalist or two. 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. It was an act. 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 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). He had mentioned his interest in Carter to Whitney, only to have her insist she would arrange a chat. The Miranda Obsession joins a slate of Audible Original projects that includes The Coldest Case from James Patterson, performed by Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter and Nathalie Emmanuel; . She begged him to look beyond her lies. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Only anger and a dash of sarcasm. For the first time he asked pointed questions: What are you doing? An Internet search of local newspaper archives uncovers a half-dozen mentions of a Whitney Walton during the 1990s, including a letter she wrote to thank people for donations to Head Start and other programs benefiting disadvantaged youth. April 28, 2022 3:04 pm ET. . Which is great when I want a short, intriguing read. But she did send him a photo, cut out of a magazine, of a lithe, voluptuous model. This went on for weeks, he continues. Society of Texas Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress also for Kansas City. She made you feel fantastic., A lot of nights she was my only friend, says Joel, who understood that Miranda was also phone pals with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Sting. That led to another long talk and then another and another, until Perry realized he was looking forward to her calls. Patsy Carpenter. referencing Michael & Miranda . Musicians, he says, get calls from all kinds of wacko people. And there was always sort of a tease, how good-looking she was, wait till you meet my friends. Ill never forget the last scene. 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. We talked for 20 minutes. 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 4.4 (6,603 ratings) Try for $0.00 Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. Click above to get a preview of our newest plan - unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts. The City of Covington 2194 Emory Street NW Covington, GA 30014. They talked on the phone a lot.. A local prosecutor, urged by the young mans family to investigate, found the woman was a fraud. In their second or third conversation she said she lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but attended Tulane University in New Orleans. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. This went on for 15 years. The dark rise of serial killer true crime has moral weight for those who aim to reflect a God of light and life. . It was a friend of hers. Its a perfect tale for an audiobook. Im Whitney Walton, a woman sitting behind a corner desk says. I think they are mainly lengthy magazine articles. Directed to a door marked SOCIAL SERVICES, I stick my head in, peek over a room divider, and ask for Whitney Walton. 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. 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. But she wasnt, he realized in a moment of self-loathing and almost unbearable sadness, a woman he could spend his life with. 2022 Vice Media Group LLC, Wingate Media, and Scrap Paper Pictures (P)2022 Vice Media Group LLC, Wingate Media, and Scrap Paper Pictures. 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. They agreed he would go to her room at seven to meet her. . When these men talk to Miranda, they never feel alone. They would talk late into the night. Click through the photos to see who was seduced by. Maybe the performers can be nominated for a spoken word Grammy, Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022. Im open and adventurous, Perry concedes. A unique story and told by well known actors. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. But it's easier to take it out on your best friend who's. Although his accomplishments in the magic arts have been great, magic itself remains "rough," meaning either "crude" or "violent.". In time he got over it. I am interested to see how this performance compares to the original article. My story, he says, sinking into a desk chair and pouring himself a glass of 1989 Chteau Lafite-Rothschild, begins with a phone call.. 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. At first [when she called] it was a pain in the ass. Still, he kept talking to her for months after. He doesnt want to sound pitiful. She quickly grows impatient, refusing to answer questions about her background and issuing an unyielding wall of stern denials. Just didn't grab my attention at all. I do love a good dramatization in an audio book. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. 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. If I were back in college I would do a paper in Psychology class about the true story behind this audible original. We werent talking about Socrates.. Executive producers on the series are Brosnahan, Shannon Gibson, Samantha Schlaifer and Olivia Wingate. A short book, fantastically narrated, enthralling and strange and downright gripping. It turned out to be her. I thought, Im falling in love with her.. 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. Jen Silverman is a New York-based writer. Its not me, she says flatly. The story was ultimately turned into a screenplay that was never filmed. 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. In retrospect Perry realizes she had done considerable research on him. Song Exploder is a docu-series based on a podcast of the same name in . Why havent you called? She wanted a plain emerald. She was sitting on the edge of the bed. He isnt proud of what happened, nor is he ashamed. She just had an incredibly sexy voice and she had a great game, delivery, come-on. Starring Rachel Brosnahan, Milo Ventimiglia, Josh. Warren Beatty, Peter Wolf, Richard Gere, Michael Apted, Art Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Ted Kennedy, Eric Clapton, Sting, and Robert De Niro all declined to be interviewed. Its the first project for Audible from the collaboration between Vice Studios and Wingate Media. It is a true story about a mysterious socialite woman that was connected with every major male Hollywood star, actor, writer, producer in the 1980's. He was always calling to see how she was. There is a large mole on her right cheek. Were talking about someone who can con people into saying they saw her. Its very complex.. Oh, youre the guy who has Odeon! she exclaimed. The Miranda Obsession, the scripted series will be written by Jen Silverman (Tales of the City) and performed and executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan (Prime Video's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and her banner, Scrap Paper Pictures. It's sort of cheating to record this as a book when it is really like watching two episodes of a television series (or listening to a podcast). She had a tape of Alex, on [her] answering machine, I think, and she played it for me, says McNally. She was awfully good company. Joel pushed to see her. . On a cul-de-sac high in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, behind the gates of a sprawling Art Decostyle home Ronald Reagan built for Jane Wyman in 1941, Richard Perry gazes out at the evening lights of Los Angeles. She let us listen to their calls. Josh 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. Buck Henry heard an unconfirmed story that Miranda may have disappeared in the wake of threats from the late Vitas Gerulaitiss lawyers; the Gerulaitis estates current attorney says he knows nothing about it. Finished it in one day and stayed up too late. And when she talks to them, she feels alive. The music between calls was super annoying and unnecessary. By page 25, sick and shaken, she is in her prison. No conflicts are too hopeless to resolve, no obstacles too painful to overcome, no resolutions too final for last minute reconsideration. 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). Before long Perry was scheduling his studio time around her calls; he made sure to finish work every night by seven, then he would race home, lay out his dinner, pour a glass of wine, and put Ariana on the speakerphone as he ate. But who is Miranda, really? Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. It was very funny. . And I was more disturbed by Miranda at the end than at any other time throughout the story. She said she was hoping I could see beyond the deception. Before I can finish, she hisses, Keep your voice down! and then leads me into an indoor play area. In the course of those long, flirtatious conversations some fell madly in love with her. Try again. And then she vanished. I enjoyed this and I love Rachel Broshnahan but the music was obnoxiously loud. We were going to hook up in Florida and of course that never took place, because that was never her intention. At J.F.K. Not only did she hold her own, but she curated a fantasy on the other end of the telephone and drew men into her design with words alone.. Ohhhhh, my God. LAW & ORDER {LAW AND ORDER}: OBSESSION (TV) . The next afternoon Whitney checked into the Park Lane and telephoned him at his hotel room. I knew her as Whitney Walton, says Billy Joel. They dont know her, but she intimately understands the feelings theyve never articulated to anybody else, and she museslow and soft, never making them feel uncomfortableon what it means that they feel this way, and why. Give this one a chance, you won't regret it. Yeah, he said. The Evening Star. I had given her a dose of her own medicine. fantasies about death. Not to worrywhat was ignited when I loved you continues to burn.. He says he remained angry at Friesen and Henry, but their allegations nagged at him. A crowd of kindergartners file into the room and begin to play. Id love to jack him. A few days later she brought up the singers name again. As the relationships between Miranda and the famous men she calls escalate, it becomes clear that Miranda may not be who she says she is and that her game is no longer a game at all. I have no idea what the point of this was It was so well performed but the story made no sense. 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