Author: Savannah Skye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503566129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70s drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenagers courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and its neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60s and 70s could truly be called surviving Beverly Hills. Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, rock and roll, sex and the Hippy mentality still affects generations to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
Sex, Drugs, Death in Beverly Hills
Author: Savannah Skye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503566129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70s drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenagers courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and its neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60s and 70s could truly be called surviving Beverly Hills. Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, rock and roll, sex and the Hippy mentality still affects generations to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503566129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70s drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenagers courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and its neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60s and 70s could truly be called surviving Beverly Hills. Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, rock and roll, sex and the Hippy mentality still affects generations to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
SEX, DRUGS, DEATH in BEVERLY HILLS
Author: Lisa Ann Rose
Publisher: Urlink Print & Media, LLC
ISBN: 9781643670911
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70's drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenager's courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and it's neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60's and 70's could truly be called "surviving "Beverly Hills." Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, "rock and roll," sex and the "Hippy" mentality still affects generation's to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
Publisher: Urlink Print & Media, LLC
ISBN: 9781643670911
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70's drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenager's courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and it's neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60's and 70's could truly be called "surviving "Beverly Hills." Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, "rock and roll," sex and the "Hippy" mentality still affects generation's to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
Murder of an Elvis Girl
Author: Buddy Moorehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
It's one of the most brutal unsolved murders in the Elvis Presley universe - the 1981 slaying of his beautiful "Blue Hawaii" co-star, Jenny Maxwell. It was reported at the time that the murder was part of a botched robbery in Beverly Hills, but that's not at all what happened. Forty years after the murder, thanks to this book, it's finally been solved. Who killed Jenny Maxwell, and why? For the first time, the truth is revealed in "Murder of an Elvis Girl: Solving the Jenny Maxwell Case," And the truth is incredible.Jenny Maxwell was one of the hottest young actresses in Hollywood in the early 1960s, and she became best known as an Elvis Girl, playing the bratty Ellie Corbett in Elvis Presley's classic 1961 film, "Blue Hawaii." The performance made her one of the most memorable Elvis Girls ever and endeared her to generations of the King's fans. She appeared in dozens of TV shows, as well - everything from "Bonanza" and "My Three Sons" to "Father Knows Best" and "The Twilight Zone." In the 1960s, Jenny Maxwell's career was red-hot. She was friends with Sharon Tate and Peggy Lipton and dated a slew of young Hollywood stars.Off the screen, though, her personal life was a mess. She married film director Paul Rapp when she was just seventeen and became a mom at nineteen. Her marriage and her motherhood fell apart thanks to a lifestyle of Hollywood parties, drugs and sex. In an effort to win back her son, she quit Hollywood altogether in 1968 and married Ervin "Tip" Roeder, a high-powered and mobbed-up Los Angeles divorce attorney who was twenty years her senior. Their marriage was a rocky one, and by the time 1981 came around, they were separated and heading for divorce. Tip Roeder was at Jenny's side that fateful day in Beverly Hills, as they were both gunned down by the assassin outside her condo."Murder of an Elvis Girl" tells the amazing Hollywood life story of a true Elvis legend. Jenny Maxwell shared the screen with the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Robert Conrad, Joey Bishop. Bob Hope and Joan Crawford. She rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra and Sandra Dee. And biggest of all, she was an Elvis Girl.The story of how this book came about is just as incredible. "Murder of an Elvis Girl" is written by Buddy Moorehouse, a longtime journalist from Michigan who is actually Jenny's first cousin, once removed (his grandfather and her father were brothers). The family had always been told that Jenny's murder was part of a botched robbery, but they never quite believed that, so Buddy embarked on a journey in 2019 to learn the truth of what really happened to their famous cousin. He eventually struck pay dirt when he found the detective who had investigated - and solved - the murder.This is the untold story of a long-forgotten Hollywood legend - how she lived, how she loved, and how she died.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
It's one of the most brutal unsolved murders in the Elvis Presley universe - the 1981 slaying of his beautiful "Blue Hawaii" co-star, Jenny Maxwell. It was reported at the time that the murder was part of a botched robbery in Beverly Hills, but that's not at all what happened. Forty years after the murder, thanks to this book, it's finally been solved. Who killed Jenny Maxwell, and why? For the first time, the truth is revealed in "Murder of an Elvis Girl: Solving the Jenny Maxwell Case," And the truth is incredible.Jenny Maxwell was one of the hottest young actresses in Hollywood in the early 1960s, and she became best known as an Elvis Girl, playing the bratty Ellie Corbett in Elvis Presley's classic 1961 film, "Blue Hawaii." The performance made her one of the most memorable Elvis Girls ever and endeared her to generations of the King's fans. She appeared in dozens of TV shows, as well - everything from "Bonanza" and "My Three Sons" to "Father Knows Best" and "The Twilight Zone." In the 1960s, Jenny Maxwell's career was red-hot. She was friends with Sharon Tate and Peggy Lipton and dated a slew of young Hollywood stars.Off the screen, though, her personal life was a mess. She married film director Paul Rapp when she was just seventeen and became a mom at nineteen. Her marriage and her motherhood fell apart thanks to a lifestyle of Hollywood parties, drugs and sex. In an effort to win back her son, she quit Hollywood altogether in 1968 and married Ervin "Tip" Roeder, a high-powered and mobbed-up Los Angeles divorce attorney who was twenty years her senior. Their marriage was a rocky one, and by the time 1981 came around, they were separated and heading for divorce. Tip Roeder was at Jenny's side that fateful day in Beverly Hills, as they were both gunned down by the assassin outside her condo."Murder of an Elvis Girl" tells the amazing Hollywood life story of a true Elvis legend. Jenny Maxwell shared the screen with the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Robert Conrad, Joey Bishop. Bob Hope and Joan Crawford. She rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra and Sandra Dee. And biggest of all, she was an Elvis Girl.The story of how this book came about is just as incredible. "Murder of an Elvis Girl" is written by Buddy Moorehouse, a longtime journalist from Michigan who is actually Jenny's first cousin, once removed (his grandfather and her father were brothers). The family had always been told that Jenny's murder was part of a botched robbery, but they never quite believed that, so Buddy embarked on a journey in 2019 to learn the truth of what really happened to their famous cousin. He eventually struck pay dirt when he found the detective who had investigated - and solved - the murder.This is the untold story of a long-forgotten Hollywood legend - how she lived, how she loved, and how she died.
The Death of the Grown-Up
Author: Diana West
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312340490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here's what she finds: It's difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too "young" to call themselves "mister." Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism. We haven't put away our toys " As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can't say "no," a politically correct population that doesn't know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the "culture wars" in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the "real" culture war of the 21st century--the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312340490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here's what she finds: It's difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too "young" to call themselves "mister." Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism. We haven't put away our toys " As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can't say "no," a politically correct population that doesn't know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the "culture wars" in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the "real" culture war of the 21st century--the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.
Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites
Author: E.J. Fleming
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661850X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661850X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
Jane Fonda
Author: Patricia Bosworth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547152574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
In the hands of a seasoned, tenacious biographer, the evolution of one of the century's most controversial and successful women becomes nothing less than the enthralling saga of a mythic American life.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547152574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
In the hands of a seasoned, tenacious biographer, the evolution of one of the century's most controversial and successful women becomes nothing less than the enthralling saga of a mythic American life.
Super Freak
Author: Peter Benjaminson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613749600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex- and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on to record new music that was compared to the Beatles' White Album, and ended his life as a punch line for Dave Chappelle. James attempted to tell his own story—in two different books—but left out many incidents that reflected badly on his character. Now, based on court records, newspaper archives, and extensive interviews with dozens of family members, band members, friends, and lovers, here is the definitive biography of Motown's most controversial superstar.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613749600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex- and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on to record new music that was compared to the Beatles' White Album, and ended his life as a punch line for Dave Chappelle. James attempted to tell his own story—in two different books—but left out many incidents that reflected badly on his character. Now, based on court records, newspaper archives, and extensive interviews with dozens of family members, band members, friends, and lovers, here is the definitive biography of Motown's most controversial superstar.
Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction
Author: Sonia Baelo-Allué
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441107916
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441107916
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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High Concept
Author: Charles Fleming
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747542629
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, High Concept takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in the Hollywood history. The revelations in High Concept are astounding! Through intensive research Fleming has created a dramatic tale of the rise of the key players and how the Don Simpson way became the Hollywood way. Through an interwoven narrative of the decadence and greed, hypocrisy and hysteria, profligacy and moral emptiness of the key power brokers, Fleming returns to the core concept of excess and how it continues to drive Hollywood.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747542629
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, High Concept takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in the Hollywood history. The revelations in High Concept are astounding! Through intensive research Fleming has created a dramatic tale of the rise of the key players and how the Don Simpson way became the Hollywood way. Through an interwoven narrative of the decadence and greed, hypocrisy and hysteria, profligacy and moral emptiness of the key power brokers, Fleming returns to the core concept of excess and how it continues to drive Hollywood.
America, History and Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description