I just finished reading "Pin-Up: The Tragedy of Betty Grable". I didn't really know a lot about her when I started it so for me it was interesting. My knowledge of her up to that point consisted mainly of seeing "How To Marry a Millionaire", and that she was married to Harry James.

It focuses a lot about the negative aspects of her life which I ( Read more... )

Just got back from the Planned Parenthood Book Sale where I bought a TON of books ( Read more... )

I just finished Secrets of a Sparrow, Diana Ross' autobiography (originally published in 1993), and it was TERRIBLE! She glosses over anything remotely interesting, constantly contradicts herself, and the whole book is brimming with syrupy new age-y inspirational thoughts that made me feel like I just drank an entire bottle of Karo ( Read more... )

i've been reading christina crawford's "survivor," which is kind of a sequel to mommie dearest. she talks about her life and the controversy after "mommie dearest" was written and published. she suffered a major stroke, which i didn't know. the book is full of ridiculous psychobabble and i've skipped most of it, but i would like to point out ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading The Big Love, one of the true classics in the celebrity kiss and tell genre. This book was penned by Mrs. Florence Aadland, the doting mother of Beverly Aadland, who scandal chasers might remember as a young (and I mean YOUNG) Hollywood hopeful who had a brief but very intense relationship with Errol Flynn. For the record ( Read more... )

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As an obsessive fan of '60s girl music, Darlene Love's autobiography was a bit of a must-read for me.


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we've talked about "my mother's keeper" here before. i was moved by phyllisgabor's description of the book to pick it up a couple of weeks ago at a rummage sale for 50 cents ( Read more... )

I just finished "Merman: An Autobiography" and it was very interesting. And I got to know La Merman in a way that I never had before. Overall I liked the book very much and overall I do like Ethel but I think that if I had known her we wouldn't have been best buds or anything like that. She's very conservative and very preachy about God (which is ( Read more... )

Two Jackson jurors say they regret acquittal - Both plan to write books on trial.

holy shit, talk about your blatant celebrity cash-in books! TACKY.