Beverly Hills Confidential

Beverly Hills Confidential
Author: Barbara Schroeder
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 188331870X

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The very name Beverly Hills conjures images of glamour, wealth and success; in reality, the place has more than its share of malice, mayhem and even murder. In the breathtaking and sometimes macabre pages of Beverly Hills Confidential, the underbelly of the tummy-tucked gets exposed. Investigative reporter Barbara Schroeder and BHPD CSI inspector Clark Fogg re-examine the sensational stories of the past century, such as the Charlie Chaplin paternity trial and the mystery surrounding the death of Jean Harlow's MGM mogul husband.

Chihuahua Confidential

Chihuahua Confidential
Author: Waverly Curtis
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758274963

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While starring in the new reality show Dancing With Dogs, novice P.I. Geri Sullivan and her talking Chihuahua Pepe, keeping the competition on a tight leash, must sniff out a killer when the judge everyone loves to hate is murdered. Original.

Soap Opera Confidential

Soap Opera Confidential
Author: Elizabeth Searle
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476665281

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Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first American daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five classic essays and recollections, authors and soap opera insiders delve into the passion for television melodrama that compels viewers to "tune in tomorrow." The contributors include iconic soap star Thorsten Kaye, journalist Leigh Montville, authors Elinor Lipman and Ann Hood, and editors of Soaps in Depth magazine. They explore the soap phenomenon from a range of perspectives and consider the appeal of a venerable genre in which, as novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard observes, "everyone's life was more depressing than mine."

The Skinny Confidential

The Skinny Confidential
Author: Lauryn Evarts
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1624140459

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A comprehensive collection of lifestyle information, including tips on eating, exercising, and fashion.

Ghosts of Greystone

Ghosts of Greystone
Author: Clete Keith
Publisher: Linseed Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN: 9781733155908

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K-Town Confidential

K-Town Confidential
Author: Brad Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781684338856

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Young lawyer Holly Park is hired to defend teenager Naomi Linser - charged with murder in the stabbing death of the local Councilman. The crime takes place in a gritty Koreatown 'room salon' with Naomi holding the murder weapon.

The Menendez Murders

The Menendez Murders
Author: Robert Rand
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1946885274

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Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. But it was all a façade. The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills didn't make the cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months later, and the case developed an intense cult following. When the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that Lyle and Erik were a pair of greedy rich kids who had killed loving, devoted parents. But the real story remained buried beneath years of dark secrets. Until now. Journalist Robert Rand, who originally reported on the case for the Miami Herald and Playboy, has followed the Menendez murders from the beginning and has continued investigating and interviewing key sources for 28 years. Rand is the only reporter who covered the original investigation as well as both trials. With unparalleled access to the Menendez family and their history, including interviews with both brothers before and after their arrest, Rand has uncovered extraordinary details that certainly would have changed the fate of the brothers' first-degree murder conviction and sentencing to life without parole. In The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menedez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation, Rand shares these intimate, never-before-revealed findings, including a deeply disturbing history of child abuse and sexual molestation in the Menendez family going back generations, and the shocking admission O.J. Simpson made to one of the Menendez brothers when they were inmates at the L.A. County Men's Central Jail.

Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593313100

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From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson—Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to CONFESS. “I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.” In Freddy’s viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It’s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between. Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses—and you are here to read and succumb.

Unreal Estate

Unreal Estate
Author: Michael Gross
Publisher: Broadway
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 076793265X

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A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.

West of Eden

West of Eden
Author: Jean Stein
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1473522358

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West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985). West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.