Books by Jimmy McDonough and Complete Book Reviews
Jimmy McDonough, Author . A Cappella $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55652-426-4
Milligan's greatest films were The Orgy at Lil's Place, The Naked Witch, Fleshpot on 42nd Street
and Monstrosity
(a violent, bloody rape revenge fantasy that was a cross between Frankenstein
and The Golem). Shooting on budgets that...
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Jimmy McDonough, Author . Crown $26.95 (463p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5044-4
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Legs McNeil
God I love slang, I really do, especially when it's used to write a biography of a man obsessed with only two things in life: WWII and heaving, pendulous breasts."
Subtitled The Biography of Russ Meyer,...
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Jimmy McDonough, Author . Viking $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-02153-6
There’s no mistaking McDonough’s take on Tammy Wynette’s artistry: of her first single, “Apartment No. 9,” he writes, “I don’t know if there has ever been a more perfect debut.” But his adulation is...
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Jimmy McDonough. Da Capo, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-306-82267-4
McDonough’s uneven biography of singer Al Green draws on interviews with Green’s friends, family, and fellow musicians, as well as on already published interviews with and stories about the singer. In great detail, journalist McDonough (Shakey: Neil
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