People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.
The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.