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Title: The Hollywood Book of Death : The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Robert Parish ISBN: 0-8092-2227-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absorbing read!
Comment: The Hollywood Book of Death is a very compelling book-covering not only the high profile celebrity deaths (River Phoenix, Phil Hartman), but also lesser-known and forgotten stars. Murders, as well as puzzling and accidental deaths, suicides, drug- and alcohol-related, and many notable deaths from natural causes. The appendices are also helpful, providing a very comprehensive necrology of show biz personalities and where they are buried. But it's more than lists. I found reading the individual stories to be very absorbing. I bought the book for my interest in only one or two of the people covered, but found myself drawn in to reading more and more of the interesting and often bizarre tales of Hollywood deaths. Some will be familiar to you, but the author has uncovered even more details of those well publicized cases than you probably knew before. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lurid tales of the passing of the famous and not so famous
Comment: If you're interested in the lives and deaths of TV and movie celebrities, this is the book for you. It provides an account of each featured celeb's life and (of course) death no matter how tawdry either the former or latter may be. Suicides, murders, old age, disease, and every other imaginable way the Grim Reaper takes his harvest is here. One will be saddened over the suicides of Freddie Prinz and River Phoenix as well as feel pride over how a real-life cowboy and hero like Buck Jones went to his final roundup rescuing people in real life as he did so many times on film. My only recommendation is that the reader should read only a few pages at a time since the book can prove rather depressing what with seeing the often sad end of so many bright stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite Good...
Comment: I picked this up on a whim while browsing in my local bookstore one day, and I am glad I made that purchase. I read one or two entries every night, so it took me a while to get through it, but it was very interesting and informative, if a bit depressing at times. It was easy to read, and I was able to read each entry quickly, which is not usually the case for most Hollywood "biographies" that I've read.
I do have one complaint with the book, however. Even though I am not usually the one to need pictures in the books I read, it would have been MUCH nicer to have included at least one photo for each of the stars here. There were several featured people that either: 1.) I did not know of or 2.) I could not recall the face of. It would have been nice to have a convenient reference of these people. Looking back, many of the entries were without pictures.
Otherwise, it was a very enjoyable read, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
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Title: Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes by Mark J. Masek ISBN: 1581822456 Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing Pub. Date: 05 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hollywood Haunted: A Ghostly Tour of Filmland by Laurie Jacobson, Mark Wanamaker, Marc Wanamaker ISBN: 1883318122 Publisher: Angel City Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger ISBN: 0440153255 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy by Tod Benoit ISBN: 1579122876 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels by Paul Young, Paul Young ISBN: 0312206461 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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