The Hollywood Book of Extravagance The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols

by Parish, James Robert

• ISBN13: 9780470052051
• ISBN10: 0470052058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Savor the inside scoop on over-the-top superstars "I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. . . . I'm a billionaire!" "Acting is an empty and useless profession." "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere else." "I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons." Which screen icons gave us the quotes above? How do stars get away with self-indulgent, unrestrained behaviors-or do they? In The Hollywood Book of Extravagance, longtime industry insider and Hollywood historian James Robert Parish gives you a provocative look behind the scenes at the lavish indulgences and larger-than-life egos of Tinseltown's rich and famous. The featured celebrities range from heartthrobs to industry tycoons, and from yesterday's matinee idols to today's hottest celebs. The stars are grouped according to their excesses: ego, neurosis, partying, power, rich living, and romancing. You'll devour little-known details on the excesses and exploits of notables ranging from Mae West to Madonna, Greta Garbo to Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, Bela Lugosi to John Belushi, Zsa Zsa Gabor to Paris Hilton, Errol Flynn to Jude Law, and many more.

Author Biography

James Robert Parish is a former entertainment reporter and publicist and the author of It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, and The Hollywood Book of Breakups (all from Wiley). Parish appears frequently as an expert on network and cable television documentaries like A&E's Biography and E! Television's True Hollywood Stories.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

So Much, So Young

Drew Barrymore

Danny Bonaduce

Gary Coleman

Jackie Coogan

Macaulay Culkin

Patty Duke

Lindsay Lohan

Tori Spelling

So Much Ego

Richard Burton

Bette Davis

Rex Harrison

Al Jolson

Jerry Lewis

Madonna

Jayne Mansfield

Burt Reynolds

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Barbra Streisand

Mae West

So Much Neurosis

Woody Allen

Jean Arthur

Marlon Brando

Joan Crawford

Greta Garbo

Betty Hutton

Jennifer Jones

Oscar Levant

Marilyn Monroe

Sean Penn

Peter Sellers

So Much Partying

John Barrymore

John Belushi

Montgomery Clift

Sandra Dee

Robert Downey

Chris Farley

W.C. Fields

Judy Garland

David Hasselhoff

Dick Haymes

Whitney Houston

Buster Keaton

Veronica Lake

Bela Lugosi

Liza Minnelli

River Phoenix

Elvis Presley

Richard Pryor

Zachary Scott

Charlie Sheen

Gale Storm

So Much Power

Johnny Carson

Michael Eisner

Mel Gibson

Louis B. Mayer

Louella Parsons

Martha Stewart

Lew Wasserman

So Much Rich Living

Marion Davies

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Sonja Henie

Paris Hilton

Howard Hughes

Demi Moore

Mary Pickford

Gloria Swanson

So Much Romancing

Warren Beatty

Clara Bow

Louise Brooks

Charlie Chaplin

Joan Collins

Tony Curtis

Marlene Dietrich

Errol Flynn

Ava Gardner

Lorenzo Lamas

Jude Law

Julia Roberts

Mickey Rooney

Frank Sinatra

Elizabeth Taylor

Lana Turner

Shelley Winters

Bibliography

Index

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