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| The Address Book: How to Reach Anyone Who Is Anyone (Address Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Levine
Publisher: New Millennium Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 11th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1893224783
Dewey Decimal Number: 025
EAN: 9781893224780
Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
A mailing resource contains nearly four thousand addresses for celebrities, political leaders, sports stars, and business executives, and includes such figures as Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, Ross Perot, Rush Limbaugh, and Cindy Crawford.
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 10th edition as BAD as the 1st.... January 28, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have collected autographs through the mail since 1975 and have introduced many to this wonderful hobby. Bought first edition of this book in 1980. Should have stopped there. Waited a few more editions. With ever-increasing postage costs, it is so important for the collector to have the most direct and up-to-date addresses available, ones that will help them "reach the stars," not the circular file of some movie company's PR dept or even worse, result in a letter being "RETURNED TO SENDER." And Levine is notorious for listing many fan club addresses for these celebrities. All five of Levine's address books I have purchased have consistently provided the worst response percentages of any other source I have used.
The best of the printed Celebrity Address Lists (with the exception of Jim Weaver's) have long since disappeared in the advent of the Internet. There are so many sites with current, tested addresses. Don't waste your money on this one. I don't even think Michael Levine knows how bad this is.
Road to nowhere June 20, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I picked up this book by chance while looking to solicit blurbs for my own 'hilarious' book, Love Song for W (ISBN 0595311911). After scanning the entries for about 15 minutes, I knew I was in trouble. Even without going through the formality of sending out mail and having it returned, you can tell that many addresses don't pass the smell test. Several entries are clear victims of sloppy cut-and-paste work, leaving in data from other listings. (Either that, or Bill Gates really does live on One Microsoft Way, right in the heart of Los Angeles, as we're told here. And I haven't watched Letterman in a while, but I'm pretty sure that Stephanie Seymour doesn't have any affiliation with 'Worldwide Pants, Inc.' Trust me, the ASPCA won't let one of Axl Rose's paramours anywhere near Stupid Pet Tricks.)
Maybe I'm being too harsh... then again, what else can you say about a book that tells us Toby 'McGwire' is a baseball player living at '250 Stadium Drive' in St. Louis. (For that matter, I don't even think that MARK McGwire lays his hat there these days, either. He's too busy pleading the Fifth before Congress while shedding a lonesome tear, reminiscing about the good times when he and his Mafia drug-dealer played Liar's Poker with C-Notes, the loser getting a steroid-laced beating he'd never forget.)
Need more? How about a 368-page book that wastes TWO entries on the Shue Family? (Everyone who's still worrying about Billy and Allison from Melrose Place, raise your right hands.) How about numerous entries that are clearly addresses for studios or agencies but leave the company's name to your imagination? Would it be too much to leave in 'c/o Paramount,' for instance? You might as well send out your Valentines to 'Brad Pitt, Hollywood, USA,' not far off from 'c/o Santa Claus, the North Pole.'
If you really need to contact centers of influence, your best bet is to sign up with an online company that will bill you month-to-month and will actually have a staff to make sure the addresses are more accurate than 'Fidel Castro, P O Box 361, Cuba.' (I'm not making these up, by the way. Did I mention the political listings that display an obvious leaning to the Libertarian side? No wonder the book is sloppy -- the author was legalizin' it!!)
I hate to say it, but it really feels like the flunky they hired from the data-entry temp agency just didn't put their heart and soul into the project. And if they can't get excited about their work, who can?
Answer To Below Review April 1, 2004
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
To address the review regarding Douglas Adams' email address, the answer is simple: Michael Levine puts about as much thought into his books as he does trying to gain publicity for his clients: NONE! Believe me, Levine doesn't know how to get in touch with any celebrities--he hasn't represented one since he split from another PR company and formed his own. Don't waste any money on this book. If you want to contact a celebrity, just do a little research online and you can find out what company represents them, and send your mail through them. That will help you to avoid getting back a bunch of letters marked RETURN TO SENDER that you will get if you use the addresses in Levine's lame book.
 Additional Comment Re: Michael Levine's Address Book March 19, 2004
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was quite surprised to note Douglas Adams's e-mail address in the version featured above. Mr. Adams died unexpectedly in 2001 at the age of 49. If anybody receives a response from him, I'd be curious to know.
Better Ways To Write To Stars February 5, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is pretty useless, which I don't really feel is the author's fault. Celebrities probably change contact info all the time and it's impossible to keep up.I am an autograph collector and I have found the best way to get autographs (most specifically for celebrities) is to find the address of the network their TV show is on and write to them in care of the network. I have probably gotten responses on 90% of the letters I have sent. I think that would be much more effective than buying this book and getting most of your letters returned due to wrong addresses.
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