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Face Value (book)

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{{infobox book |

| name = Face Value

| title_orig =

| translator =

| image = Janifacevalue.jpg

| image_size = 160px

| caption = Cover of Face Value

| author = Jani Allan

| illustrator =

| cover_artist = Roger Ingarfield

| country = South Africa

| language = English

| series =

| genre = Journalism/Photography

| publisher = Longstreet

| release_date = 1983

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| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 119

| isbn = 978-0-620-07013-3

| oclc= 53125911

| preceded_by =

| followed_by = Jani Confidential

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Face Value is a 1983 anthology of collected journalism by South African journalist Jani Allan. The book is compiled from selections of Allan's successful{{cite web | url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=487129 | title=They Used to Hog the Headlines | work=The Sunday Times|location=South Africa | date=11 June 2007 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} gossip and popular culture column Just Jani that appeared in the Sunday Times. She was voted "the most admired person in South Africa." in a Gallup poll commissioned by the newspaper.[http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Retail-industry/Bauwens-had-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-relationship-with-Mellor-misrepresented-in-press.html Abstracts] Weekly Mail. 1992 The book was published by Longstreet publishers in Cape Town and released in South Africa in 1983.{{cite book|year=1980s|first=Jani |last=Allan|title=Face Value |publisher=Longstreet}}

Synopsis

The book is a selection of interviews and photographs of public figures from various fields such as entertainment, sport, business, art and politics. Allan also contributed a column-style introduction to each chapter. Andrzej Sawa provided the photographs of the interviewees.[http://www.nikon-nps.co.za/AdrezejSawa.asp Andrezej Sawa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622235423/http://www.nikon-nps.co.za/AdrezejSawa.asp |date=22 June 2008 }} Nikon Professional Services.

Five of the interviewees (Sol Kerzner, Danie Craven, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Walter Battiss and Taubie Kushlick) were featured in the They shaped our century survey, a top 100 list published about which people had the greatest influence on South Africa during the twentieth century. Sunday Times editor, Tertius Myburgh wrote a foreword for the collection.

=Author's note=

"I do not think that for one moment that in a brief interview I can write an accurate-every-time character-revealing piece. But my aim has always been to convey as honestly as I can my first impressions on Face Value, with no 'Ums', 'Ers' or retakes."

Reception

The book received favourable reviews;

"She soon developed a highly individual style and the Jani Allan column, one of the most successful features in Africa's biggest newspaper, followed. She's become a formidable journalist...There's a touch of Tom Wolfe's 'new journalism' about her writing, but it is never contrived. In her choice of subjects she's attracted by what she calls 'the boquet of money' and she's good on those ubiquitous creatures of our time, the 'celebrities', whom she is able to send up without the bitchiness which tends to put me off some lady writers of the adversary school of journalism. When she's touched by something - an individual, a cause, or some little act of valour - her writing reflects immense warmth and humanity." Tertius Myburgh, Editor of the Sunday Times

"Your piece on me acted like a bicycle pump and I mooned around for ages, smiling foolishly and cannoning off the wallls. [sic]" Frank Muir

"The only girl who ever knocked me out" Mike Weaver

"Guy Fawkes couldn't brighten up Sunday better." Graham Bell

"She is not destructive - but she does have a particular facility for puncturing pomposity" Joe Sutton

Contents

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THE PERPETUAL SPECTACLES 9

BUSINESS MORE THAN USUAL 21

  • Sol Kerzner 22
  • Benny Goldberg[http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/ChrisBarron/Article.aspx?id=547809 Benny Goldberg: Owner of world’s largest liquor supermarket]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Sunday Times. 26 August 2007 26
  • Mike Illion 29
  • Tony Factor[http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=6238 Mr Anthony "Tony" FACTOR]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} News24-Who's Who 33

NATIONAL MONUMENTS 37

PRETTY BOYS ALL IN A ROW 57

  • Richard Loring[http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5519 Richard LORING] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928125552/http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5519 |date=28 September 2008 }} News24-Who's Who 58
  • Karl Kikillus[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Karl+Kikillus Karl Kikillus] Discogs 60
  • James Ryan 62

FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT ... 67

  • Tobie Cronje[https://archive.today/20070811212424/http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5559 Mr Tobie CRONJE] News24-Who's Who 69
  • Robert Kirby 70
  • Katinka Heyns[http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5652 Mrs Katinka HEYNS]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} News24-Who's Who 72
  • Pieter-Dirk Uys 75

SPORTING CHANCERS 79

OLD MASTERS, YOUNG IDEAS 89

  • Walter Battiss 90
  • Gordon Vorster[http://www.artnet.com/artist/677151/gordon-vorster.html Gordon Vorster] Art Net 93
  • Tretchikoff 95

MIXED METAPHORS 101

  • John Brett Cohen 103
  • The Hell's Angels 105
  • Alvon Collinson[http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=6132 Mr Alvon COLLISON] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929233525/http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=6132 |date=29 September 2008 }} News24-Who's Who 109
  • Gunter Brözel[http://www.meerendal.co.za/newsletter/press_may06.htm CAPE WINE MASTERS AWARDS DINNER AT MEERENDAL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613105440/http://www.meerendal.co.za/newsletter/press_may06.htm |date=13 June 2008 }} 6 May 2006 111
  • Robert Van Tonder 114
  • Carole Charlewood[http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/inventory.php?iid=8856 Inventory: The Carol Charlewood Collection 1984 to 1997] University of the Witwatersrand 118

Dictionary

Her Just Jani column has been referenced extensively by South African English dictionaries because of Allan's popular use of terms such as jorl, smaak and larney

.{{cite book|year=1987|first=Jean |last=Branford|title=A Dictionary of South African English |publisher=Oxford University Press}}

References

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Category:Books by Jani Allan

Category:1983 non-fiction books

Category:Books of interviews

Category:South African non-fiction books

Category:Books of photographs