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1 review
Joyce Raskin

Lulu.com, 2007

Real Life, Real Music
"Aching To Be" pulls no punches as it tells the story of Joyce Raskin's life as a woman in rock and roll, from her struggles to learn the bass at age 13 to reaching the heights of indie success with her band Scarce. Tragically, the magic of Scarce was ravaged by band member Chick Graning's sudden illness. Joyce chronicles Chick's journey back to the world, and how the band coped. After a long ...

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty

17 reviews
Tim Sandlin

Riverhead Hardcover, 2007

The Bookschlepper Recommends
Guy Fontaine is an Okie (although not from Muskogee) who, in 2022, finds himself in assisted living on the California coast with the 70- and 80-year olds of Haight Ashbury and the Summer of Love. It only takes him a few days to learn to appreciate the finer points of sex, drugs and rock `n roll. But he's still a Heartlander, not bound by ideas of peace, love and harmony when the facility's ...

Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive ...

4 reviews
Gregory William Mank

Feral House, 2007

Hell bent for destruction
Greg Mank has left the haunted mansion of golden age horror film critiques and heads into Hollywood Babylon territory with his newest book; and what he finds would have Kenneth Anger gasping for breath. Mank, with his coauthors Charles Heard and Bill Nelson, tells the tale of the Bundy Drive Boys, a collective of fast living and hard drinking Hollywood actors, writers and artists--- all ...

Drew Barrymore: The Biography

2 reviews
Lucy Ellis, Bryony Sutherland

Aurum Press, 2003

True Drew
After reading this biography my opinion on Drew Barrymore changed 100%. The authors challenge the way she is so often presented in the media throughout the book by demonstrating her bizarre upbringing and precocious achievements. Although ditzy would sometimes be a good word to describe her I now realise she's extremely hard working and dedicated to her career. Her private life also makes for ...

A History of American Classical Music (Naxos Books)
Barrymore Scherer

Sourcebooks Media Fusion, 2007

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 ...

The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family

1 review
Carol Stein Hoffman

University Press of Kentucky, 2001

Feast for the eyes of Barrymore fans
You can never have enough photos of the Barrymores. Books like "Good Night Sweet Prince" are superb, but lack photos. This new coffee table book is almost entirely made up of photographs. It was made with the involvement of John Barrymore Jr, the spaced out hippy son of John Barrymore (and father of Drew.) There are lots of rare family photos, and a neat section on "Barrymoreabilia".

PLAYBOY Magazine December 2000 CARMEN ELECTRA cover feature, Drew Barrymore interview, 2000

CARMEN ELECTRA cover feature, Drew Barrymore interview

Little Girl Lost

77 reviews
Drew Barrymore

Pocket, 1991

Drew Barrymore is an inspiration. Period.
Literally one of the greatest books I've ever read. No, I'm not saying that because I'm a Drew Barrymore fan. I mean, if acting isn't what she wanted to do, she could've been an author! Written when she was still in rehab circa late 1988 and published in 1990, this book gives all of us an insight into her early years, and the hell she went through at such a young age. She tells us about her ...

Good Night Sweet Prince (Lively Arts Series)

2 reviews
Gene Fowler

Mercury House, 1989

A Gracefully Written, Insightful Book from/of Another Era...
Gene Fowler wrote gracefully and eloquently of his great friend John Barrymore in this, a biography from an era in which private lives were not seen as tabloid fodder and in which an author could concentrate on the significant moments of an artist's journey rather than sensationalism. As Fowler intended, Barrymore emerges from this book not as a hell-raising, womanizing alcoholic who was ...

House Of Barrymore, The

1 review
Margot Peters

Knopf, 1990

Possibly the most fascinating star biography ever written
Grandmother Louisa Lane was a fabulous person: actress, theater manager, and she held the family together. Once her husband and her sister went on a long, long tour. Then they presented her the baby they "adopted". Louisa was a good sport: she presented them the baby she "adopted". Her daughter Georgie, who married matinee-idol Maurice Barrymore died of tuberculosis when their children Lionel, ...

Happily Ever After: The Drew Barrymore Story

5 reviews
Leah Furman, Elina Furman

Ballantine Books, 2000

Great story!
Drew Barrymore is an inspiration to me. I've followed her entire career, seen all her movies, and read almost every single article about her. This is a great book for a great star.

Barrymore's Ghost

3 reviews
Jason Miller

Dramatists Play Service, 1997

Miller Knows Barrymore Well
Jason Miller is a brilliant writer. His Pulitzer Prize winning drama 'That Championship Season' is proof enough of that. Yet 'That Championship Season' was to Miller in many ways what 'Hamlet' was to Barrymore....that is, a success so terrifying that it seemingly immobilized him. As Barrymore escaped to the fantasy world of Hollywood, with it's faceless women and big paychecks, leaving much of ...

Damned in Paradise: The life of John Barrymore

3 reviews
John Kobler

Atheneum, 1977

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
John Kobler is probably best remembered for his biography of the notorious gangster Al Capone. It was a solid book and it still holds up rather well despite being superseded as to some details by a few subsequent historical research revelations contained in newer books about the Prohibition Era. This biography of John Barrymore, however, proved to be much more memorable in my opinion. I am ...

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE January 1995 Issue (Drew Barrymore In The Flesh!)
Playboy, 1995

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