, and hustled interviews with Bill Clinton, Elton John and Alan Bond, among others. She has, from behind the scenes, wrangled contracts, massaged egos and mended fences, all the while trading on her talent alone in a churn-and-burn business populated by network silverbacks and boys-club politicking. “One of the things I like about Anita is that she doesn’t suffer from the ego problem,” says long-time friend and ABC TV producer Helen Grasswill. “She detests bragging and doesn’t big note.
is a shape-shifter, a detective thriller by way of memoir, a family history that detours into Gothic tragedy and Cold War intrigue. “I had no idea when I started that it’d turn out like that,” Jacoby tells me. “When I found all this new stuff, I realised that I’ve travelled all over the world and told hundreds of stories, only to find probably the richest story of my life within my own family.”grew up the youngest of two children in Killara, a middle-class suburb in Sydney’s north.
The conditions were appalling, with low pay and 12-hour days. Jacoby told her father, who suggested she look for work at smaller, regional TV stations. This she did, becoming a reporter at Channel 3 in Newcastle.Courtesy of Anita Jacoby with Gordon Elliott. In her book, Jacoby describes how Kennerley guilefully turned Elliott’s ego to her advantage: “Although he thought he was in charge, in fact, she was in charge.” Like Kennerley, Jacoby would remain comfortable in her own skin and confident in her abilities.reporter Jeff McMullen. “Those breakfast programs are just puppet shows. They barely take the women in the audience seriously, let alone the women in the studio.
Phillip had no money – the Nazis had prevented him from taking it out. But he soon started a business with Grace, called Jacoby & Barrow, importing electrical goods. Their office was in the city, close to a business run by another German émigré called Hans Lewy and his wife, Emmy.
In 1954, Phillip married Josephine. “Dad definitely told Mum about Phyllis’s suicide. But I only heard about it from Linda while I was writing the book.”is bound up in our parents. They are the clay we are made from; we look to them, from our very first breath, for clues about who we are and might yet become. It can be confronting, then, to discover that they aren’t who you thought they were.
He was only meant to go for one month but ended up being away for six, not just in Germany but in France, Sweden and Denmark. Jacoby is at a loss to explain what he was doing in these countries, but suspects he used the time to develop his own business contacts. “He was quite entrepreneurial.”
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