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Rh Of New York Media; Recaps, Gossip, Blogs
Topic Started: Jan 17 2012, 08:51 PM (58,667 Views)
Mariah
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http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/real-housewives-of-new-york-city-recap-season-6-book-fight-model-behavior.html
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Carole tries to run downstairs but Amanda Sanders, image consultant, is there like a herpes flair-up: arriving at the wrong time, inconsequential but annoying, and making everyone look like a real asshole. Carole finally gets downstairs and, instead of leaving, has a powwow with Heather, who was wearing this hideous floral print while sitting in front of Aviva’s retina-searing yellow wallpaper. It was like watching a rainbow sherbet cone melt on the sidewalk in a pool of Red Bull vomit.
Edited by Mariah, Mar 26 2014, 10:56 PM.
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I liked like love this passage:

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There’s just one last thing about Hashtag BookGate I want to talk about and it has more to do with what everyone was saying at the baby shower that Carole threw her friend at her apartment. Now, maybe it was because it was a baby shower so everyone was hypnotized by Bellinis and diaper genies, but what is this bullshit about “All Carole has is her career and that is why what Aviva said is so hurtful.” No, the reason why it is hurtful and bad is because it was hurtful and bad. It is an awful thing to wrongfully besmirch someone’s character and professional reputation. The fact that Carole may or may not have babies or may or may not be in a relationship is irrelevant.
This idea that Carole doesn’t have anything else because her husband died and she is single and has no children is ludicrous. Carole has a lot. She has a gorgeous apartment in the West Village. She has two books. She has memories of sitting next to Oprah on national television. She has more chic motorcycle jackets than Paula Deen has racist jokes. She has a great smile and wonderful friends and a VP of social media that I would like to lock myself in a closet with and not open the door again until we have swapped outfits (and maybe other things). Carole has plenty. She doesn’t need children or a man, she has herself, and it’s a damn good self at that. No one should be upset by what Aviva said because Carole doesn’t have children, they should be upset because what she said is mean and without merit. Period.
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I watched half last night. Aviva is not only horrid but scary. The wicked witch of the east. Maybe her rented townhouse will collapse on her. I c a n n o t stand her. Even though we always need the evils on the show she just takes the cake. I don't think she is clueless either. The others who said she'll do anything to stay on the show bc she's a famewhore are correct imho. She is simply vile. "Word on the street" was amazing. Thanks for verifying everything I've said about you since episode one of your premiere on tv. You and your dad are disgusting human beings Can you imagine if she lost both legs? Okay now I'm going to hell but fortunately I don't believe in hell!
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CCC, you got me to actually laugh out loud and snort, too. If she lost both legs ... can a human be more entitled than Aviva? There's no where for her to go! (And she wouldn't be able to go anywhere.)

Yeah, I don't believe in Hell, either.
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Someone at TWOP posted that Carole sold 753 hardcover books the first week that it went on sale, and has sold 3047 total. They also surmised that she sold about 2000 in e-book format.

Could this possibly be true? How do they make money off of these books?

They keep giving the Ho's book deals, so it's got to be profitable, right?
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New York Post weighs in on Aviva/Carole feud.

Ghostwriter or editor?
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Mar 27 2014, 01:03 PM
CCC, you got me to actually laugh out loud and snort, too. If she lost both legs ... can a human be more entitled than Aviva? There's no where for her to go! (And she wouldn't be able to go anywhere.)

Yeah, I don't believe in Hell, either.
She could go out with the blade runner on trial for murder
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Mar 30 2014, 02:14 AM
Someone at TWOP posted that Carole sold 753 hardcover books the first week that it went on sale, and has sold 3047 total. They also surmised that she sold about 2000 in e-book format.

Could this possibly be true? How do they make money off of these books?

They keep giving the Ho's book deals, so it's got to be profitable, right?
That's quaintirene on twop. She is somehow involved in publishing and I think had an advanced copy of one of the HWs books - maybe Caroles. She said Widow's Guide undersold Clownie's the first week out. Lol. But it was released before the season aired, right? If it were released right now, I think it would have more of a following.

ETA - Quaintirene is a very sane poster over there. She has been posting for a while on NYC.
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Oh that Post article linked to this one. Ccc and Carole are right, Aviva has been a mooch her whole life. She's never worked.
Oh and Harry sounds like a real prize. Scamming the parents so they don't have to earn a living themselves.

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Aviva Drescher’s new memoir, “Leggy Blonde,” bares all about the “Real Housewives,” her prosthetic leg and her ex-husband, real-estate scion Harry Dubin — and reveals she had an abortion three months before he popped the question.
“I felt nothing,” writes Drescher, who has remarried. “No regret. It was the obvious decision, and Harry supported it . . . Ironically, ending the pregnancy brought us closer together.”
She calls him “the kindest, most generous, fun-loving party boy,” but also opens up about their problems.
“When we rented this [$8,000-a-month] apartment, I told my family it was $4,000 and showed them a fake lease,” he told her, adding, “I got the other $4,000 from my grandfather. Well, my parents and grandfather somehow found out . . . they’re pissed.”
She also claims that Dubin’s grandfather paid his AmEx bill, and that his parents gave him a “generous allowance, which his grandfather hadn’t been aware of.”
Dubin tells us: “I was very young. When a couple is starting out, it’s not so bad to have your father or grandfather helping out.”
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Mar 30 2014, 08:58 AM
Oh that Post article linked to this one. Ccc and Carole are right, Aviva has been a mooch her whole life. She's never worked.
Oh and Harry sounds like a real prize. Scamming the parents so they don't have to earn a living themselves.

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Aviva Drescher’s new memoir, “Leggy Blonde,” bares all about the “Real Housewives,” her prosthetic leg and her ex-husband, real-estate scion Harry Dubin — and reveals she had an abortion three months before he popped the question.
“I felt nothing,” writes Drescher, who has remarried. “No regret. It was the obvious decision, and Harry supported it . . . Ironically, ending the pregnancy brought us closer together.”
She calls him “the kindest, most generous, fun-loving party boy,” but also opens up about their problems.
“When we rented this [$8,000-a-month] apartment, I told my family it was $4,000 and showed them a fake lease,” he told her, adding, “I got the other $4,000 from my grandfather. Well, my parents and grandfather somehow found out . . . they’re pissed.”
She also claims that Dubin’s grandfather paid his AmEx bill, and that his parents gave him a “generous allowance, which his grandfather hadn’t been aware of.”
Dubin tells us: “I was very young. When a couple is starting out, it’s not so bad to have your father or grandfather helping out.”
Oh, I missed that link. I can only imagine the stupendous palace that rented for 8k back then. You didn't really hear those kinds of numbers. Odd that Harry's father didn't she'll out for a coop.

People like Harry are sad, especially as they get older.
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Quaintirene is a poster who suggested Sucks in the HW thread about where to go when TWoP closes. I have a feeling she posts at both places.
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Someone at TWOP posted that Carole sold 753 hardcover books the first week that it went on sale, and has sold 3047 total. They also surmised that she sold about 2000 in e-book format.

Could this possibly be true? How do they make money off of these books?

They keep giving the Ho's book deals, so it's got to be profitable, right?


Publishing is a strange business, and I feel confident in making that statement as both an author and a publisher. It IS all about the bottom line, but many if not most, books published don't ever make a profit...in the traditional sense. It's a business of throwing a lot against the wall and seeing what sticks. One best seller can fund several non-sellers. Dud books are remaindered, sent to places like Books-A-Million. Initial costs are recouped, or not. Most authors receive no advances or a very modest check. Publishers put little to no effort into marketing books by authors that aren't famous or former best sellers, first time and/or unknown authors have to do their own marketing. So other than advances or payment for book rights, publishers aren't out a whole lot of money for books. If a Real Housewife book takes off and sells, great. If not, eh, no biggie. Also often advances are paid out over time and have stipulations as to sales of the book; your book doesn't get the expected sales, you do not get the next installment of your advance.
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Thanks for the info, dilbert! It's always been kind of a mystery to me.
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Carole says she went for the most money, I wonder if she also went for the most money up front -- would have been smart. I ordered her book. I did not and will not order Brandi's second book, nor Clownie, Vyle, Vieves, or Missy's books.

If her book is turned into a TV series, it'll get some readers from that. It has legs, which ironically or perhaps not, Vieve's does not.

And that New York Post article smells like Vieve's. Another way to add traction and get her own/ghostwriter's tome notice.
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Don't forget that unlike Aviva (and Clownie, and Melissa, and Brandi and Jill etc.) Carol actually wrote a best selling book long before joining the HW circus. A book that Aviva gushed over the first time she met Carol.
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