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Frank Sanello (born 1952) is an author and journalist who writes about the entertainment industry, cultural anthropology, politics, social issues, and revisionist history. Early life Born and raised in Joliet, Illinois, he graduated from University of Chicago with a BA in English literature, and from University of California, Los Angeles with an MFA in screenwriting.[1] Career Journalism and reporting Before becoming an author, Sanello wrote for various outlets such as The New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe[2] and the Chicago Tribune.[3]  He was a reporter for People Weekly,[4]  and US Weekly. In 1986 and 1986, he worked as a segment producer pre-interviewing guest for the host of The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. His two weekly columns about the entertainment industries were syndicated internationally by United Media in the 1980s and 1990s. During that time, Sanello interviewed dozens of film and TV executives and hundreds of actors, producers and directors.[citation needed] Authorship Sanello’s nonfiction books have been distributed internationally. Most prominent of them is The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another (Sourcebooks, 2002).[5] The Opium Wars' publication in China was unusual in that Chinese scholars and government watchdogs typically reject Western accounts of their history as biased and Eurocentric. The book attempted to offer a more balanced account of the two conflicts fought between Britain and China in the mid-19th century. [6] In his critique of The Opium Wars in the East Asian Review of Books, Wayne E. Yang wrote, "Those who believe the dictum that 'those who fail to learn [from] history are doomed to repeat it' have fodder in W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello's The Opium Wars. The Wars stemmed in part from the early trade imbalance between England and China: '[T]he British people became addicted to [tea] … British traders had to find something China wanted as much as the British wanted tea, and would be willing to pay for in silver. The solution to this predicament lay in opium.'" In a review for the American Library Association’s Booklist, Jay Freeman wrote about the authors of The Opium Wars, “Their account of the causes, military campaigns, and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre, and deeply unsettling.” Publishers Weekly wrote, “Hanes (Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization) and film author and former "Los Angeles Daily News" critic Sanello have teamed up to produce this fine popular account…The book covers a familiar time and place in history, but the authors make some nice analogies between the brutal economics and empire of the 19th century, and 21st-century forms of money, politics and war.” The cautionary nature of Sanello’s Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America (Alyson, 2005) was noted in a review in the gay magazine, Edge Boston: “More than 250 crystal users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book. One after another, stories were told of lives destroyed by a seductive drug.” As a gay activist and the author of Tweakers, Sanello has lectured on methamphetamine abuse in the gay community and was a guest-speaker on the topic at a conference and seminar in San Francisco. Tweakers was the source of a feature-length video of the same name in 2007, and featured grim, on-camera accounts of recovering and active methamphetamine addicts, adapted from case histories in Sanello’s book. A reader and recovering methamphetamine addict wrote a review of Tweakers on Amazon.com. blaming the poor quality of Sanello’s writing on the reader’s recent relapse on the highly-addictive drug. It was the only time Sanello, a former book reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Chicago Tribune who has panned some books, responded to a negative review. Another non-fiction book by Sanello, The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers, garnered international interest because of The Da Vinci Code’s fictional treatment of the Medieval monastic order. Sanello’s examination of the Templars, which debunked myths about their survival today as Freemasons, was also published in the Czech Republic and elsewhere. The author taught college-extension courses at the Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles on how to write and find a publisher for his students' nonfiction books. Libel case In 1999, the Beverly Hills, California, law firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman sued Sanello and Carol Publishing for $30 million for defamation and interference with economic relationship after the publication of his biography, Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone (Carol/Birchlane, 1997).[7] In the biography, Sanello  quoted comments allegedly made by William Skrzyniarz, a partner at Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, which represented the actress at the time, about Stone's private life. [8] The libel suit was generated by a brief passage in Sanello's biography of Stone: "Although I had identified myself as Stone's biographer, one of Meyer's partners, William Skryzniarz, told me after two bottles of Merlot on New Year's Eve 1996, 'When Sharon wants someone, she rents a hotel room and tells him exactly when and where to show up. She makes it clear it's a one-time opportunity, take it or leave it. She's made the move on some major names.' Skryzniarz became circumspect when I asked him to name names." [9] The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after a four-month civil trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, California[10] Celebrity biographies coverage The author has been a guest on CNN, Bravo, Hard Copy, Inside Edition, and Geraldo, where he discussed his celebrity biographies, which take a psychological look at his subjects in order to explain their often inexplicable behavior. In Eddie Murphy: The Life and Times of a Comic on the Edge, Sanello speculated that the film star may be bipolar based on the actor’s own description of his volatile moods. After Murphy and a transvestite prostitute were detained by West Hollywood Sheriff deputies, media accounts also suggested the actor suffered from manic-depression, the outdated term for bipolar disorder. Sanello collaborated on Saving America: Solutions for a Nation in Crisis, with Dr. Adel N. Shenouda, professor emeritus of nephrology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In Saving America, Dr. Shenouda offered a simple, painless plan to provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, which the doctor said could be financed with as little as a 1.5 percent tax increase. Shenouda has sent Saving America to every member of the U.S. Congress and Senate in the hope of implementing his solution to the nation’s health crisis with 70 million Americans uninsured, 8 million of which are children. The authors also note that some Third World countries offer better coverage. Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction, which identifies inaccuracies in historical films and suggests reasons why some film-makers distort the past, has been optioned by The American Film Company, which produces historical films. Sanello also wrote columns about American history and its depiction on film for the company, headed by TDAmeritrade founder, Joe Ricketts. An advocate of frei kultur or free access to information, the author has donated his early books to OpenLibrary.org, including "Reel v. real - how Hollywood turns fact into fiction", (WorldCat link), which notes that his Reel v. Real is part of the library collections of Yale, Harvard and Temple Universities. The MLA (Modern Language Association) APA (American Psychological Association), Turabian and the Chicago Manual of Style have cited his work. Sanello has registered with Project Gutenberg in order to submit his books to that free-access site as well. The author's novel, The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler, about the Nazi dictator's imaginary wife, has prompted some readers of the serialized chapters to inquire if Frau Hitler was an actual historical figure they had somehow missed in European history class. Works •	Spielberg: the man, the movies, the mythology, Taylor Pub. Co., 1996, ISBN 978-0-87833-911-2 •	Naked Instinct: The Unauthorized Biography of Sharon Stone, Carol Pub. Group, 1997, ISBN 978-1-55972-402-9 •	Eddie Murphy: The Life and Times of a Comic on the Edge, Carol Pub. Group, 1997, ISBN 978-1-55972-437-1 •	Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life, Pinnacle Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7860-0506-2 •	Stallone: A Rocky Life, Mainstream, 1998, ISBN 978-1-84018-113-5 •	Julia Roberts, Mainstream Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-1-84018-270-5 •	Halle Berry: A Stormy Life, Virgin Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85227-092-6 •	Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction, Taylor Trade Pub., 2003, ISBN 9780878332687 •	The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers, Taylor Trade Pub., 2003, ISBN 978-0-87833-302-8 •	W. Travis Hanes, Frank Sanello (2004). The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another. Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4022-0149-3. •	Tweakers: how crystal meth is ravaging gay America, Alyson Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55583-884-3 •	To Kill a King: A History of Royal Murders and Assassinations from Ancient Egypt to the Present, CreateSpace, 2011, ISBN 9781449982737 •	The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler: Translated and edited by Frank Sanello, CreateSpace, 2012, ISBN-13978-1477581728 •	Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in Nazi Germany, CreateSpace, 2011, ISBN-13978-1466213272 •	Fractured History Tales: Or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened, Don J. Myers, illus., CreateSpace, 2011, ISBN-13978-1461193982 Reviews[9] •	"The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello", Asian Review of Books, Wayne E. Yang •	"Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology", Publishers Weekly, 01/01/1996 •	"THE OPIUM WARS: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another", Publishers Weekly, 09/16/2002 References 1.	↑ Amazon.Frank Sanello (bio) 2.	↑ Los Angeles Times 3.	↑ Chicago Tribune 4.	↑ Fighting for Life - HIV/AIDS, Good Deeds, Coping and Overcoming Illness, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson : People.com 5.	↑ "Frank Sanello". Open Library.org. Internet Archive. Retrieved 17 August 2011. 6.	↑ "Stone biographer beats libel rap". The New York Post. 6 October 1999. 7.	↑ "Naked Truth from Sharon Stone". The New York Post. 28 August 1998. 8.	↑ O'Neill, Ann W. (10 October 1999). "Law Firm Is Loser in Flap Over Stone Bio". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 July 2013. Further reading •	Beeching, Jack (1975) The Chinese Opium Wars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. ISBN 0-13-617094-9 •	Booth, Martin (1998) Opium. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-18643-6 •	Fay, Peter Ward (1975) Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates. North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4714-3 •	Paludan, Ann (1998) Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors. Thames and Hudson. ISBN-13978-0340706046 •	Robert, J.A.G., A Concise History of China. Macmillan Press Ltd. ISBN-10 0674000749 External links •	Sanello, Frank (January 6, 1989). "Is Tv Trivializing The Holocaust?". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 January, 2013. •	Chicago Tribune, Sanello, Frank •	FrankSanello (talk) 23:14, 8 July 2013 (UTC)FrankSanello