Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
This documenary reveals the story behind the now-defunct "Park Avenue Peerage" blog. In the height of heiress-era NYC, a | dG1fMGV0MWRiaUVCUDQ
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00:00 At the time, New York felt very thriving,
00:03 and it was just this crazy, over-the-top world.
00:06 -Paris and Nikki Hilton. -Nicole Richie.
00:08 -Timsley Mortimer. -Hardy.
00:10 -Giant handbags. -Cocaine.
00:11 -Socialites. -Her beautiful, cool, and sexy.
00:13 All these photographers, I just remember thinking,
00:16 "I want to be part of this. This looks cool."
00:19 -How to break into New York society 101.
00:22 -I kind of invented the Hilton sisters.
00:24 I taught them how to pose.
00:26 People realize the power of image.
00:29 ♪♪
00:31 -When I met Tinsley Mortimer, we were at a party.
00:33 I said, "It's all about being in the right dress
00:35 at the right time."
00:37 -Tinsley Mortimer dropped on the scene like a bombshell.
00:40 -♪ Hit you, hit you, hit you ♪
00:42 ♪ Uh-huh ♪
00:43 -It was a new time. It was kind of a free-for-all.
00:45 People were doing blow, and they were hanging out,
00:47 and they were making the world go round.
00:49 I mean, it was fun until it just became not fun.
00:53 ♪♪
00:54 -When the blogging craze took off,
00:56 suddenly everyday people were putting their opinions
00:58 about famous people on the Internet.
00:59 Blogs like Gorka. -Perez Hilton.
01:01 -Ark Avenue Peerage.
01:02 -Anonymous blogs devoted to who was up and who was down.
01:06 -We created storylines of who the villains were.
01:09 -They cultivated a real air of mystery.
01:12 -They had the power of the pen,
01:13 and that pen can be vicious and mean.
01:16 -There was no separation between myself
01:19 and this glamorous, glittering world.
01:21 -It was almost like this weird secret society
01:23 that was very public.
01:24 -There was no sense I was writing something
01:26 that would affect someone's actual life.
01:29 -It ended up putting me in a place that I was so low.
01:32 -Sorry.
01:34 ♪♪
01:35 -Well, that's America for you.
01:37 They bring them up, and then they bring them down.
01:38 -I just had a nervous breakdown.
01:40 -There have been plenty of socialites, you know,
01:42 who have died.
01:44 -It seemed like the Wild West of media.
01:46 -No one went higher and fell further down.
01:48 -It was really surreal.
01:50 -These were real people and not, like, characters in a book.
01:52 We made them into characters.
01:54 ♪♪
01:57 -This concept of fame, the concept of celebrities,
02:00 I think it's a big lie.
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