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Little Girl Lost
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Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive Boys
They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama's boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts.
They were "The Bundy Drive Boys," and they made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts.
Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The Bundy Drive Boys' un-bowdlerized stories have never been illustrated so well or told so completely as within Hollywood's Hellfire Club.
Author Gregory William Mank also wrote It's Alive!: The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein and Hollywood Cauldron.
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The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family
The Barrymores are a part of American culture: we have Drew Barrymore dolls and screensavers, and vintage John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore film and stage memorabilia is prized throughout the world. Their complex family tree contains branches of actors that stretch from Elizabethan England to the big-screen debut of Charlie’s Angels. John Barrymore is recognized as one of the last matinee idols as well as “the Great Profile.” He had the most notoriety of the Barrymore dynasty, all of whom were recognized for their brilliance on stage and screen. He was best known for his interpretations of Shakespeare’s works on stage and the debonair characters he created on film, as well as for his grotesque, deformed characterizations of the hypnotist Svengali and Mr. Hyde. In 1928 John married actress Dolores Costello, the love of his life, a smoky-eyed beauty half his age whose father, Maurice Costello, was the first star of motion pictures with The Vitagraph Company. The couple documented their honeymoon voyage with a unique album of photos and kept a personal journal about the Galapagos Islands and other exotic locations they visited. In The Barrymores: Hollywood’s First Family, these materials are reproduced for the first time, along with private correspondence, rare family photographs, materials collected by the family, and stills from well-known films that illuminate the family’s triumphs and tragedies. John and Dolores’ son, John Drew Barrymore, inherited ability, looks, and the family curse. He married three actresses and has three children, among them Drew Barrymore, the child actress who has grown into a true Hollywood player. Many believe that for talent and charm, the Barrymores have never been eclipsed—and never will be. The Barrymores: Hollywood’s First Family tells their remarkable story..
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A History of American Classical Music (Naxos Books)
This richly detailed narrative tells the stories of America’s classical composers, set against significant events in American history. Acclaimed music writer Barrymore Scherer follows the development of American classical music, from Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Joplin, and Sousa, to lesser-known names such as William Henry Fry and Alan Hovhaness. Scherer surveys the period from the Mayflower through the Europe-tribute years to the two world wars and onwards to the growing academic and concert confidence of the post-war period. Broadway, opera, musicals, bandstands, marching bands and piano players all get their place. The book includes a CD of carefully chosen pieces. Readers also gain access to an exclusive website that offers new essays, the musical works in full, and more. This revolutionary book utilizes traditional and new media to provide a uniquely rounded portrait of the American classical scene and music..
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Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty
It's 2023, and Guy Fontaine is an unwilling new resident at Mission Pescadero, an assisted-living facility outside San Francisco It doesn't take him long to realize that his fellow residents have reverted to the lifestyles they embraced in the sixties, complete with sex, drugs, and rock and roll (with a little Viagra thrown in for good measure). The Mission Pescadero staff, and the world outside, would like nothing more than to forget these aging hippies, but the residents want-no, demand-to be treated with respect and dignity. And they'll fight for it. When one resident's prohibited cat is discovered by Mission Pescadero's domineering administrator, the resulting confrontation mushrooms into an epic battle between authority and anarchy, complete with twenty-four-hour media coverage and the involvement of California's governor, Drew Barrymore. As tensions escalate, Guy finds himself cast as an unlikely radical in a drama he doesn't understand. By turns outrageous, hilarious, and, ultimately, touching, Tim Sandlin's new novel is a fascinating exploration of how the baby boomers are facing their own mortality. Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty is Sandlin at his iconoclastic best..
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PLAYBOY Magazine December 2000 CARMEN ELECTRA cover feature, Drew Barrymore interview
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