Maury: The Story of an American Pop Culture Institution

Most famous-or infamous-for its "You ARE/ARE NOT the father " DNA dramas, Maury Povich is part of America's cultural landscape. In this book, author Denise Noe tells the whole story of how The Maury Povich Show morphed from a traditional talk show to one that is ribald and raunchy yet-in contrast to its biggest rival, The Jerry Springer Show-firmly grounded in reality. Noe takes us backstage as a lighting director, a music composer, a set designer, a hypnotist, actors, and the "ordinary" people who appear on Maury spill the secrets of how this show's potpourri of phobia treatments, rebellious teenagers, controlling men and their downtrodden women, glamorous gender benders, and the famous paternity tests routinely come into America's homes.

Author Biography

Denise Noe is a severely multi-disabled and struggling writer who lives in Bolivar, Missouri. Other books of hers published by BearManor Media include The Complete Married... with Children Book: TV's Dysfunctional Family Phenomenon and Teletubbies On the Screen and Behind the Scenes. BearManor Media also published her eBook Obsessions & Exorcisms in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates. BuzzwordBooks.com published her collection of articles about true crime entitled Suffer Little Children. She has also published articles, short stories, essays, and poems.