Gina Ruth S. (Shadygrove) - reviewed May be fun ... but not so factual on 12/18/2008 + 11 more book reviews

If you are looking for campy stories somewhat in the style of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, you may like this book -- but if you are looking for veracity and carefully reported facts you may be disappointed, as I was, with the factual errors and pieces of unsubstantiated information that crop up regularly here. The particular section I was interested in, at least, was riddled with them. Some important items stated as "the way it was" I know not to be true,wrong dates crop up,documentation is ignored, etc. -- so take the information in this book with a grain of salt, for sure. Some juicy stuff, but just be forewarned... in some cases, at least, it is juice from no identifiable meat!

Includes a chapter about cover-ups and suppression of truth as a way of life in Hollywood news reporting and separate chapters about the deaths of Elvis, Thomas Ince, Thelma Todd, Carol Wayne, Carole Landis, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow,Lupe Velez, and Nick Adams, as well as a couple of miscellany chapters rounding up bits about a few other "Hollywood mysteries". Book includes a fairly generous number of photos.

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