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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: 1-57912-287-6 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Recommended to Everyone I know!!
Comment: This book is packed with information and it's the most interesting read I've found in a long time. The author makes it easy to find all the cemeteries and exact grave locations of hundreds of celebrities, plus his sardonic wit and amusing writing style entertain. Tod has really gone out of his way to unearth (no pun intended) many nuggets of our heroes - and anti heroes! I love it!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Vital info is perfect
Comment: I've been interested in the gravesites of the famous and infaamous for a long time and I've often been disappointed that I've not been able to find such sites. But, what Tod Benoit has compiled is absolutely fantastic. I'm not sure how he did it, but he provides exact step-by-step instructions to going to the cemeteries, and then the actual gravesites, of these folks.
It may be true, as other reviewers have pointed out that there is an occasional lapse when Tod discusses the biographical info of each person, but I think that's to be expected when you're talking about the bio's of 500+ people. Anyway, I certainly found no alarming errors in that regard.
Besides, I bought the book so that I could find famous graves and, in the regard, the book is without equal. I can't say enough about it. It's really cool, he's done a great job in a subject that should've been covered many years ago. You will dig it too, I'm sure.
Rating: 3
Summary: Okay but there are better books out there
Comment: Just received the book from Amazon today, and while I enjoyed the Intro section, I was very disappointed after reading the first entry, Kurt Cobain. I then started to skip around and found more errors in other entries. I also find it hard to believe it left out Layne Staley, who died in 2002. I can kind of overlook the book being too narrow and a hardcover (which translates as pretty heavy to hold while reading and impossible to take along on trips) but easily verifiable mistakes on well-known people concern me as to how accurate the info is on the rest of the people.
Also, as someone who spends a lot of time photographing cemetery statuary, I was pretty disappointed there weren't more pictures in the book. The book was reasonably priced, especially for a hardcover, but I'd have been happy to have paid more for it if it had contained more pictures. I hope if the author compiles the other several hundred sites he mentions he's researched that he include pictures and make it a paperback; that would be enough to entice me to take a chance on purchasing it, after reading the current book.
Just a few of the mistakes noted:
Major mistakes in Kurt Cobain's entry: 1) he did not have 50 Rohypnol's in his system during the Rome incident; the report from the Italian doctor and the news reports containing his comments clearly show the doctor stating that there was no evidence to show he took that many and that it was clearly an accident; 2) Courtney did not check Kurt into Exodus rehab; she left for CA several days before Kurt did and he checked himself in; 3) the Vanity Fair article didn't accuse Courtney of taking heroin, Courtney admitted it during the interview with VF; 4) Kurt wasn't depressed prior to his death; he gave numerous interviews stating he was the happiest he'd ever been, that his chronic stomach pain had been taken care of, and his own lawyer (who also said on tape that Kurt was not depressed) and Courtney both admit Kurt was filling for divorce; 5) when Kurt's body was discovered he was easily recognizable as his face was not destroyed; they fingerprinted him as part of routine procedure, not to identify him.
Major mistake in Errol Flynn's entry: Flynn died of a heart attack, brought on by his excessive lifestyle wearing his body down, while in Canada. He was selling his boat, the Zaca, and had just completed the sale, said he didn't feel well and went to lie down. That's in no way a dubious circumstance and it's well documented how and where he died.
Mistake in James Dean's entry: 1) Dean bought the Porsche he died in the day before he shot his last scene for Giant (see Bio/Timeline at http://www.jamesdean.com/index2.php).
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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: 0809222272 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Where the Bodies Are: Final Visits to the Rich, Famous, & Interesting by Patricia Brooks ISBN: 0762723378 Publisher: Globe Pequot Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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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: Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents by Cormac O'Brien, Monika Suteski ISBN: 1931686572 Publisher: Quirk Books Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous by Adele Q. Brown ISBN: 081182750X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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