Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

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    In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat characters, so maybe his enthusiasm would carry the day. Or, you know, maybe it wouldn't...In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey through his life and unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC's offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen...  Read More

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    Louis Theroux

    Louis (Sebastian) Theroux was born in Singapore in 1970. His father, the American novelist and travel writer, , met his mother, who worked for the V.S.O., in Uganda. Louis’ older brother was born in Kampala, so as children we sort of globe trotted. But his father decided to buy a family home in England, and they settled down in a big, rambling, dilapidated house in Wandsworth, South London. Louis went to Westminster School and then gained a First Class Degree in History at Oxford University.

    On graduating, Louis decided to spend some time in the States. His summer break got longer and longer. I didn’t have a job lined up in England and I felt that at least by being in America I was broadening my mind. Marcel had just completed a post-graduate degree at Yale, so Louis stayed with him. I did menial work to make money and spent two months with a glass blower who made unbelievably tasteless gilded cherub goblets.

    Although initially resisting the idea of going into journalism. All my friends were writing, and I wanted to be different. Louis found a job on a local paper in the sprawling city of San Jose, a town where nothing ever happens. A year later he went to work for the New York-based satirical magazine, Spy, where When I asked some rappers to freestyle on gun safety, one of them threatened to beat me up.

    As a correspondent for Michael Moore’s 1995 series, TV Nation, Louis anchored sixteen segments. Theroux describes his first assignment: The Klu Klux Klan were trying desperately hard to repackage themselves and make themselves seem cuddly and nice, but inevitably they left out racist stickers or hate filled T-shirts. It was quite an eye opener. Reports on Avon Ladies in the Amazon and on President Clinton’s hometown of Hope, Arkansas followed.

    In 1995, Louis developed his own Weird Weekends and produced a critically acclaimed documentary series premiere. As Theroux describes, Weird Weekends se

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