Ellis Amburn, Author . Harper Entertainment $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-018566-4
"Warren wants the entire world to go to bed with him," explains an unidentified friend of the actor's, and Amburn's book attempts to prove it through a voyeuristic cataloguing of Beatty's sexual episodes, until the pretense of a...
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Ellis Amburn, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8184-0518-1
From his rockabilly roots in West Texas, Roy Orbison perfected the operatic rock ballad (``Only the Lonely,'' ``Crying'') delivered in a quavering voice that could ``scream away the pain of heartbreak.'' And there was heartache aplenty to sing about:
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Ellis Amburn, Author HarperEntertainment $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-019376-8
In one of the most salacious Hollywood chronicles in recent memory, Amburn has pieced together a page-turning account of Taylor's life from an overwhelming number of interviews, autobiographies and gossip columns. According to the author, Taylor's...
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Ellis Amburn, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-14531-6
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the Beat novelist whose road adventures inspired a rebellious generation, was, according to this often startling, unflinching biography, a self-destructive alcoholic egomaniac who believed he was Shakespeare and Balzac in...
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