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Miranda Grosvenor was the fictitious name of an elusive Louisiana woman who enchanted dozens of famous men with sweet telephone talk in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1999, ''Vanity Fair'' exposed the mystery woman as Whitney Walton, a Baton Rouge social worker and bored fan who made a full-time hobby of calling stars. Her voice and conversation style were reportedly so alluring that wealthy and powerful men (including actors, musicians, and movie moguls) fell in love without ever meeting her, and rearranged their whole evenings around speaking to the mysterious stranger. As "Miranda," Walton engaged in late-night telephone conversations with such stars as Billy Joel, Warren Beatty, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Eric Clapton, Michael Apted, Bono, Mike Nichols, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ted Kennedy, Johnny Carson, Art Garfunkel, Peter Gabriel, Robert De Niro, Rush Limbaugh, and Richard Gere, telling them that she was a blonde Tulane University student, wealthy socialite, and international model. According to ''Vanity Fair'', at least two of her telephone paramours, Quincy Jones and Richard Perry, proposed marriage. Billy Joel wrote songs which he sang on Miranda's answering machine, considered her at times his "only friend," and considered writing a musical about her. Many others bought her jewelry and sent her plane tickets. Novelist Kinky Friedman created a Miranda character in his detective novels. According to John McCall, the multimillionaire shampoo magnate and novelist, Miranda's telephone calls dissipated at some point in the mid-1980s. Though no one knows why "Miranda" retired, it was rumored that she "disappeared" in the wake of threats from lawyers of tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis. ==Movie and book deals== In 2000, HarperCollins paid close to $1 million for Walton's memoir, ''Miranda Rites: My Life As the Mysterious Hollywood Sweet Talker'' (aka ''The Miranda Mystique: How I Captivated the World's Most Desired Men''〔http://www.amazon.com/Miranda-Mystique-Captivated-Worlds-Desired/dp/006018521X〕), to be published in December 2006, as well as her audiobook rendition.〔http://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2001-11-02/83479/ "The Real Stephanie Dupont", Austin Chronicle, November 2, 2001〕 The deal was struck after agent Dean Williamson hired a private detective to track her down, whereupon he finally persuaded her to tell her story.〔http://www.salon.com/2000/04/19/miranda/ "Sweet-talker to the stars signs book, film deals", Salon, April 19, 2000〕 In January 2001, Robert De Niro, one of Miranda's former talkmates, purchased the film rights to the story. In January 2008 HarperCollins was reporting that the memoir had been cancelled. No reason was admitted to. In late 2007 online book retailers were advertising a January 2008 publication date and had identified the planned book as having ISBN 978-0060185213 with 256 pages. An audioversion was also at one point available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miranda Grosvenor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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