Sunday, July 31, 2011

Confidential Now Listed on Goodreads.com

Confidential is now listed on goodreads.com, probably the largest social cataloguing service online, with well over 5,000,000 users. We look forward to seeing you there.  

Friday, July 29, 2011

Confidential Now Available on iPhone, iPad & iPod touch via iBooks at iTunes

OK, it looks like we are up on all of the Apple platforms (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) via iTunes. download your digital Confidential here.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Entertainment Weekly Runs Excerpts of 'Confidential'

"A new biography by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, is chock-full of hush-hush anecdotes — more from the Tinseltown gig than the foreign government one, but both can be equally top secret... Arnon Milchan has two high-level lives: One as the producer of big-name movies like Love and Other Drugs and Knight and Day, and the other as an intelligence agent for the Israeli government." Entertainment Weekly has the story.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Arnon Milchan - The Art Collection... as described in the book.

New York Post on 'Confidential': Pitt-Jolie 'heated up set'


According to "Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan," by Joseph Gelman and Meir Doron, "Milchan introduced Pitt to Jolie and immediately sensed that there was a spark between them." Despite denials from Pitt and Jolie that their romance began before his split with Aniston, the book alleges, "A passionate romance ensued, with one slight problem . . . Pitt was married to [Aniston] . . . when Aniston kicked Pitt out of the house, all hell broke loose."

Ha'aretz: 'Hollywood producer gave Israel sketches of centrifuges for Dimona nuclear reactor'


Israeli businessman and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan played a central role in supplying Israel with sketches and blueprints of uranium enrichment centrifuges for the nuclear reactor in Dimona, a new biography claims.

On Monday, Haaretz reported about the new book, "Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan," written by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, which recounts Milchan's life story, from his days as a boy in Rehovot through his friendships with Israeli prime ministers, U.S. presidents and Hollywood stars.

Tablet Magazine Runs Excerpts From 'Confidential'

Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan is the billionaire Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman. He was also a secret agent who helped Israel and South Africa broker deals trading nuclear material for propaganda assistance. An excerpt from the forthcoming Confidential.

The Daily Beast / Newsweek Run 'Confidential' Excerpts

In Hollywood, Arnon Milchan is best known as the billionaire producer of films like Pretty Woman and LA Confidential, and as the owner of Fox-based New Regency. But there is another Arnon Milchan, as Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman reveal in their new biography, Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan.

For the first time, the writers expose how in the mid-1960s, while still in his early 20s, Milchan was recruited by Israel’s secretive spy agency, LAKAM; how he became a key operative for Israel’s top master spies, Benjamin Blumberg and Rafi Eitan, and a confidant of such powerful Israeli politicians as President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and how he participated in a web of complex undercover schemes to procure armaments for his country.
In this adaption from their book, they detail Milchan’s controversial relationship with American aerospace engineer Richard Smyth, a friend who became a fugitive after the U.S. accused him of illegally smuggling nuclear-bomb triggers to Israel. We pick up the two men’s story in May 1985.

The New York Times Does Large Expose on 'Confidential'

Michael Cieply of the New York Times writes an excellent expose of 'Confidential' in the New York Times. This article triggered a flood of additional articles, also leading over 14,000 web sites to reference the article withing 48 hours. It led to frontpage articles in all of the major newspapers in Israel.