Before he died, Lawford began to gather his diaries, journals, and letters. He wanted to write his autobiography and was making extensive notes. He wrote down or told his last wife much of what actually happened in his association with Marilyn Monroe, President Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and the Mob.
The daughter of the German captain of a luxury cruise liner and an American actress, Marita Lorenz became Fidel Castro's mistress in 1959 when she was 18. She bore Castro's son and was recruited by the CIA to assassinate the Cuban dictator, a task from which she drew back at the very last moment. By then firmly enmeshed in the American ...
This book takes one of photography's most deceptively difficult subjects--effectively using light--and teaches it in terms that any photographer can understand. Filled with practical advice and creative ideas, this book is sure to help even amateur photographers take better photos.
During her more than 100 years, Rose Kennedy witnessed more triumph and tragedy, celebration and heartbreak than seems humanly endurable. A full biography as well as an insider's account of Camelot's family, this book is written by the personal secretary of Rose Kennedy from the late 1960s until the time of her debilitating stroke. Photo insert.
An account of the life and death of Doris Duke, the reclusive American socialite whose increasingly bizarre behavior in her later years culminated in the mysterious circumstances of her death. In his re-creation of the Duke's last days, Schwarz makes use of the insights of Tom Rybak, a former employee at the Duke estate, and attempts to solve the ...
At the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe died a Hollywood movie star and became an American legend. This work combines the actress's personal confessions, along with interviews with friends and contemporaries, to reveal the truth behind this Hollywood icon.
One of the best untold stories of World War II and its aftermath, this tragic tale interweaves two amazing plots: how Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden pursuaded high-ranking Nazis to spare the lives of nearly 30,000 death camp inmates, and why Jewish extremists assassinated Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948.
The former personal secretary to Rose Kennedy draws on her years of access to all three generations of the Kennedy clan for this tell-all book of the scandals and triumphs of this influential dynasty. Includes never-before-published family photos.
A revealing new biography of the man who founded the Kennedy dynasty In this eye--opening book, Ted Schwarz deconstructs the myths that surround Joseph P. Kennedy and reveals for the first time the true story of this larger--than--life patriarch. Drawing on his unique access he knows the Kennedy family and has reviewed the files of a private ...
Details how to research, interview for and write marketable biographies, including as-told-to autobiographies as well as authorized and unauthorized biographies.
There has never been a Hollywood biography as shocking as The Peter Lawford Story. A rollicking journey through Lawford's golden years at MGM, it travels frm the sexual adventures at Kennedy's White House to Marilyn Monroe's tragic death to Lawford's harrowing battle with drug and alcohol addiction.
This account of two working-class girls from Utah starts as a bittersweet Jewish family memoir, and ends as a story of paranoia and betrayal in Hollywood. Rosanne Barr Arnold's sister Geraldine, tells of what happens when collaboration gives way to blind ambition and the power to invent and reinvent yourself becomes like a drug. Geraldine Barr ...
The daughter of pornography king Larry Flynt chronicles the physical and mental abuse she and her sister suffered at the hands of her father, and speaks out firmly against the business that made him rich and famous. Flynt-Vega concludes her story with a discussion of how religion has helped her recover from her awful beginnings.
This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself.Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case. The Hillside ...
The true story of a woman attacked by a serial rapist who finds out that the man she met shortly after her ordeal--who eventually becomes her business partner and lover--is the same man who attacked her. Here, she recounts her role in bringing to justice one of the most notorious criminals in Texas history.
When Richard Goetzke, vice president and chief of security for a major bank, meets former battered wife Deanna, he wants only to bring happiness to the woman he sees as hurt and betrayed.
"Hollywood Confidential" is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former Screen Actors Guild President Ronald ...
This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with killer Ken Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case.
In this moving account of hate turned to understanding, friendship, and forgiveness, author Paul Reed tells of his quest to track down the family of Nguyen Van Nghia, the North Vietnamese soldier whose diary Reed had taken as a souvenir during the war. When Reed discovers that Nghia is still alive, he travels to Vietnam to meet his former enemy ...
An electrifying true crime drama of multiple personalities and murder. Pretty, 19-year-old Kathy Bonney was the joy of her father's life. But his discovery of Kathy's diary, detailing her dark, sexual fantasies, triggered in Thomas Bonney the release of a psychotic personality called "Hitman"--who shot and drowned Kathy. 8-page photo insert.
Kept in lifestyles of luxury by the men who pursue their beauty and sexual prowess, women who make themselves available for sex in this self-destructive profession can suffer seriously. Through hundreds of interviews, McRay has uncovered the vulnerability of these women and what becomes of children born into such lives.
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Mastering Flash Photography: A Course in Basic to Advanced Lighting Techniques
