ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1973
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Donald Zec - Some Enchanted Egos
St. Martin`s Press, 1973
279 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
No Jacket. First edition.

Decent Exposures of Some of the Most Celebrated Characters of Our Time
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Donald David Zec OBE was a British newspaper journalist and biographer who worked for the Daily Mirror in various departments for 40 years.

Zec`s career in journalism began in 1938 with a three-day trial at the Daily Mirror. Interviewed by Michael Freedland in 2009, he recalled: `I was so embarrassingly bad that no one had the courage to tell me, so I stayed for 40 years.` During the war, he served in the London Irish Rifles, returning to the Daily Mirror as a crime reporter. On one occasion, he interviewed the acid-bath murderer John George Haigh in the Onslow Court Hotel. He followed this post by becoming the paper`s Royal correspondent, `which I thought was a natural progression`, he told Freedland.

Later, he became a journalist writing about film. In the course of his work he interviewed and wrote about many celebrities from the entertainment industry, including Humphrey Bogart, Brigitte Bardot, David Niven, Ingrid Bergman, The Beatles, and Marilyn Monroe.

In October 1967, he won a National Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the year, the citation spoke of his `bland outrageousness and a deadly certainty of aim`. Extending his range, he interviewed major political figures such as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the (then) leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher, Lord Mountbatten of Burma and the former Californian Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967, commenting: `it is a whimsical if not uneasy thought that an ex-movie star of many films that escape instant recollection could one day become President of the United States of America`. In 1970 Zec was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Journalism.

The many books Zec wrote include biographies of the Queen Mother, Sophia Loren, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor and Lee Marvin. Zec`s biography of his brother, the political cartoonist Philip Zec, entitled Don`t Lose It Again! The Life and Wartime Cartoons of Philip Zec, was published in 2005.

Zec died in September 2021, at the age of 102


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