Christian Bale The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman

by Cheung, Harrison; Pittam, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9781936661640
• ISBN10: 1936661640
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-29
• Publisher: Benbella Books

Summary

During the London press junket for The Dark Knight in 2008, Christian Bale was infamously accused of assaulting his mother and sister at The Dorchester Hotel. Six months later, a recording of Bale's rant on the set of Terminator Salvation was leaked, and the star's anger began to define him.

Author Biography

Meet the real-life Alfred! Harrison Cheung worked for Christian Bale as publicist, marketer, and personal assistant for almost a decade. As a family friend and confidant, Harrison was involved with practically every aspect of Christian's life, including his publicity, finances, immigration, fan mail, and, of course, web marketing. With web marketing, Harrison created the Baleheads – Christian's online fan community – and made him the biggest star on the Internet. Entertainment Weekly touted Bale as one of the "Top Cult Figures of the Past Decade" because of his Internet presence.

Born in Scotland and educated in Canada, Harrison has been writing all of his life. His first novel, Idol Worship, was a finalist in the Writers' Guild Fiction competition. In 2002, he produced an award-winning short film called Rising of the Moon, about IRA hunger striker, Bobby Sands. Most recently, his short story, Witness, won Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's 2010 Short Fiction competition. He is currently working on a series of novels.

Harrison is a digital marketing professional at IBM, where he earned an Innovation Award for his work in Internet marketing. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Nicola Pittam has been living and working in Los Angeles for the past fourteen years as a celebrity news journalist. She supplies news and features to a variety of publications in the U.S. and the U.K. including The New York Post, USA TODAY, People Magazine, Us Weekly, TMZ, RadarOnline, London Times, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Mirror, Daily Mail, Hello!, OK, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.

She has also written a biography with Angie Best – ex-wife of England's most famous soccer player George Best and fitness trainer to world-renowned entertainer Cher. George And Me: An Autobiography was published in the U.K. by Virgin Publishing in September 2001.

Nicola started her career as a writer at the age of 19 when she wrote for her local paper in Northampton, England. She has come a long way since then, including spending almost four years, from the ages of 22 to 26, working for Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper in London, which is the highest selling daily newspaper in the UK. Nicola, now 40, still writes for all the British daily newspapers, based in Los Angeles but reporting from across America. In addition, she is working on several scripts including a TV pilot and a YA novel.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Empire of the Son	p. 5
Father Figure	p. 23
Bale-Out	p. 37
Newsies	p. 51
Christian Fail	p. 67
Baleheads Begin	p. 83
Little Women, Big Dreams	p. 107
Golden Years	p. 125
Before Batman,There Was Bateman	p. 157
Post-Psychotic	p. 179
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away	p. 203
A Balance of Darkness and Light	p. 219
Harsh Times	p. 233
The Curse of Batman-It's No Joker	p. 247
The Fighter	p. 261
Award Season	p. 273
Appendix A	p. 283
Appendix B	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 293
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