| 1. The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols | 
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By: James Parish
Publisher: Contemporary Books of McGraw Hill
October 29, 2001
This is an excellent reference book, but most of this info can be found online. All of this is google-able info, but to have it condensed in book form is convenient. New information about Hollywood death still surfaces.
If you want to read the truth about the most tragic, most mourned Hollywood death of the twentieth century, read "Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour" by Marti Rulli and Dennis... more
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| 2. Haunted Hollywood: Tinseltown Terrors, Filmdom Phantoms, and Movieland Mayhem |
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By: Tom Ogden
Publisher: Globe Pequot
August 25, 2009
I enjoyed this book, both as a ghost story lover and someone who likes classic Hollywood. Many stories I haven't heard before are here, some are familiar. Classic Hollywood fans will probably love reading about stars who seem to still walk their old homes and, pardon me, "haunts."... more
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| 3. Dishing Hollywood: The Real Scoop on Tinseltown's Most Notorious Scandals |
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By: Laurie Jacobson
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
2003-11
Read it in your kitchen and forget about it.
Written for suburban housewives who eat in their basements... more
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| 4. Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy | 
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By: Tod Benoit
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
August 01, 2009
Tod Benoit updates and revises the 2003 edition of his entertaining and informative WHERE ARE THEY BURIED? book with this 2009 Black Dog & Leventhal release. The new edition adds an extra 30 pages and approximately 50 more dead celebs to Benoit's first book.
Those 500+ 'dearly departeds' are divided into the following groupings: Gen-X Standouts; Baby Boomer Icons; Senior Memories... more
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| 5. The Hollywood Book of Scandals : The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of Over 100 American Movie and TV Idols | 
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By: James Parish, James Parish
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
May 28, 2004
Wasted on stuff we heard before.
A great disappointment.
No further review is needed... more
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| 6. The Last Days of Dead Celebrities |
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By: Mitchell Fink
Publisher: Miramax
May 02, 2007
Bought this book for a friend who has a fascination on the deaths of Celebrities. Kind of creppy, burt that's his thing!! He's bought more books of this type and has enjoyed them tremendouly!!... more
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| 7. The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols |
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By: James Robert Parish
Publisher: Wiley
August 24, 2007
I liked this book from cover to cover.
No dull moment.
Well-researched and written with panache.
Perfect for a vacation-reading.
Get a copy... more
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| 8. Hollywood Babylon--It's Back | 
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By: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
June 01, 2008
Having read Kenneth Anger's original two volumes which were noir-ish and fun, I was hoping this might be another go-around at Hollywood doing its level best to cover up for itself and being EXPOSED. Sadly, about the only thing that was true is the exposed part. Never have I seen a book so populated with male frontal nudity. This book abounds with grainy pictures that look as though they've been snagged... more
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| 9. Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets |
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By: Kenneth Anger
Publisher: Dell
November 15, 1981
I have identified the 4 best books written about scandals, and here they are:
My first choice: Hollywood Earth Shattering Scandals: The Infamous, Vilains, Nymphomaniacs and Shady Characters in Motion Pictures, by Maximillien de Lafayette. This book gave us more information than any other book.
My second choice: Hollywood Babylon, by K. Anger. This book has become a legendary chronicle of... more
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| 10. Cut!: Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies |
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By: Denise Imwold, Andrew Brettell, Heather von Rohr, Warren Hsu Leonard
Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series
November 01, 2005
This is a big book with many stars, classic, silent, modern, etc. People I have never heard of like Cathy O'Donnell, Tom Tyler, and Dorothy Dell are even here. A few are missing, a few photos were labeled with the wrong people, like Heather O'Rourke, and the circumstances surrounding their deaths is rather small in some cases. If you want more details you might be disappointed, but overall a good book... more
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