Book
Description Here are one girl reporter's bold antics and escapades in glamorous locations
around the world, with fabulous stars like Frank Sinatra, Richard Burton, Burt
Reynolds and a galaxy more. Sternig answers for the first time, the two
questions most-asked of her during her two decades as an Enquirer staffer in
Hollywood: Is any of that stuff true? (and) How do you get that stuff? What
results is a fascinating, engrossing, and very entertaining first-ever peek into
how those tabloids really work and what the stars are really like.
Actress Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry Seinfeld's mom on "Seinfeld" (and
herself the author of "Dizzy & Jimmy") said..."I tried to put this damn book
down and couldn't." Since leaving the Enquirer, Sternig has been a regular free-lance contributor
to a range of celebrity-oriented publications, has co-hosted a travel and dining
radio show, and appears occasionally as a correspondent on E! True Hollywood
Story. She is divorced and lives in Los Angeles.
The hilarious adventures of a
real-live National Enquirer Senior Reporter as she met the huge challenges of
covering the world's biggest stories, about the world's most famous celebrities,
for the world's mightiest tabloid newspaper.
About the Author
Barbara
Sternig did her first celebrity interview at age 14, grilling her favorite
Chicago rock and roll DJ for her high school newspaper. But she'd already known
the media were for her since age 10, when she began writing for her 5th grade
class magazine. After gaining her journalism degree, Sternig embarked on her
career at WCFL Radio in Chicago, where she wrote & produced commercials,
mingled with the music greats of her youth, and got thoroughly hooked on the fun
of celebrities. When her disk jockey boyfriend broke her heart, she headed as
far away as she could get, which just happened to be Hollywood. Here Sternig
landed up as writer/producer and legwoman for TV Gossip Queen Rona Barrett, also
ghosting Barrett's byline fan magazine column, and along the way, developing a
precious bookful of Tinseltown connections. These she brought to the Enquirer's
Hollywood bureau, and took like a duck to water to the paper's
seat-of-the-pants, no-expense-spared, very iconoclastic style of reporting. She
circled the globe several times in pursuit of front page celebrity news, and was
eventually dubbed "Champagne Babs" by her colleagues, because of her penchant
for drinking champagne in Hollywood night spots whilst prying information from
her confidential sources.