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Provides short biographical sketches of prominent people who have belief systems that dare to be different .
Customer Review: Amusing Reading– Worth a Look
Allen has done a great job of seeking out quotes from celebrities showing their alignment with rationalism, and it’s a refreshing visit with people we may not have thought of as free-thinkers. [...]

Aaron Jaffe investigates the relationship between two phenomena that arrived on the historical stage in the early twentieth century: modernist literature and modern celebrity culture. Jaffe uses substantial archival research to show how literary fame was made by exploiting the very market forces that modernists claimed to reject.
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Masterful collection of 60 works by a supreme artist with an unerring ability to capture his subject’s personality on film. Revealing portraits of Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and many other luminaries. New English translations of Introduction and captions.

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Boze Hadleigh provides a unique compilation of celebrity quotes from those who are out, those who are outing others, those who are straight, and those who remain in concealment.
Customer Review: Another tasty dish of Hollywood on wry!
Journalist/gossipmeister Boze Hadleigh has done it again in “In and Out.” I’ve read, reread, and thoroughly enjoyed his earlier [...]

The Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn’t play host to movie history on some level. From Chaplin walking Hollywood sidewalks in 1915 to the Three Stooges running down Culver City streets in 1930 to westerns filmed in the Valley in the [...]

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Marilyn Monroe died at 36. Her death certificate lists “Acute Barbiturate Poisoning. Ingestion of Overdose” as the cause. Just below that line, you can see that the person who issued her death certificate typed “Probable Suicide.” Many people question whether her death was a suicide, an accident, or possibly a homicide.
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Victims, survivors, killers and suicides: all the people in this book are celebrities whose lives have gone awry. Celebrity has always come at a cost. If there were such a thing as a manual for how to survive celebrity, one of its key points would have to be: `Abandon all hope of a private life, [...]

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Best-selling author Dary Matera sets the Dillinger record straight, seventy years after the outlaw’s death. John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America’s fascination with the suave but deadly desperado who was the FBI’s first “Public Enemy.” Dubbed “The Jackrabbit” because of the way he leaped over bank cages and railings, Dillinger and his [...]