Thursday, June 28, 2018

Your Turn

Best celebrity biography.

55 comments:

  1. I had sex with a Chinese guy last night. An hour later, I was horny again.

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  2. Night Stalker. Chilling

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  3. Goldman's bio of Kenny Bruce.
    More recently, "Dancing with Myself," by Billy Idol.

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  4. Bruce Lee - A life. Matthew Polly

    Just finished reading it, ironically because of the CDAN blind, and I really enjoyed it.

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  5. Hamilton by Ron Chernow


    Do best non-fiction next!!

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  6. Agree - Billy Idol.
    John Taylor from Duran Duran was excellent.

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  7. "Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra" by George Jacobs

    "Johnny Carson" by Henry Bushkin

    Best autobiography is "Open" by Andre Agassi. I never imagined liking that book at all, but so many of my friends recommended it, I gave it a shot. It's fantastic. I'd love to meet him now.



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  8. This is an old one, but I really enjoyed Candice Bergen's autobiography. (Her first one; I think she has two.) It brought me to tears in some places, and I still remember it, which is a miracle for me.

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  9. I am really curious where NE peanut gallery would go with a non-fiction bio. Interview With a Vampire?


    Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

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  10. I thought Bill Russell's "Russell's Rules" was very good at outlining how his 11 championships were a result of making his teammates better at what they did.

    Okay, not so much of an autobiography.

    =)

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  11. “And I Don’t Want to Live This Life” about Sid & Nancy

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  12. I enjoyed Keith Richards' book.

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  13. Me, by Katherine Hepburn
    Just Kids, by Patti Smith

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  14. Moonwalker, it's an autobiography though

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  15. I read a lot of them. Right now, I'm digging Everywhere Hollywood," by Gerald Ayres

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  16. Years ago a friend of mine stumbled upon an unauthorized biography of David Bowie in a 99¢ bin. I quite enjoyed it. Poor guy was screwed over big time by Main Man management.

    I also really enjoyed Slash's autobiography, if that counts.

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  17. Life by Keith Richards

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  18. Andre Agassi's book - Open

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  19. Life by Keith Richards

    I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres

    It's So Easy by Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses bassist)

    I also enjoyed And I Don't Want to Live This Life By Deborah Spungen (Nancy's Mom)

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  20. My two favorite autobiographies are "The Moon's a Balloon" by David Niven & "Knock Wood" by Candice Bergen.

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  21. My least favorite are the celebrities who are contracted to write about their career & instead write all about substance abuse recovery. Kristen Johnston & Belinda Carlisle are the worst examples. I'm still waiting on a memoir about the Go-Go's by a member of the Go-Go's. I know all about Belinda's 40 year cocaine habit. Anybody can start using drugs or drinking too much. Only five people became Go-Go's. That's what makes your story interesting, write about that.

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  22. Yes, I loved Duff McKagan's autobio!

    Also loved Bob Evans's The Kid Stays in the Picture and some book about Don Simpson, maybe by a Rolling Stone guy, can't remember was fascinating.

    I liked the Schwarzenegger bio but I much prefer his 1970s opus 'The Education of a Bodybuilder'. Seriously, I love it.

    Bios I DIDN'T like: Steve Jobs. I love Apple and look up to him but that book was one dry dry read.

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  23. Also I flicked through Keith Richards' bio hoping for some fascinating stuff and it didn't appear to be there, so I left it on the shelf.

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  24. HOW CAN I FORGET!!! PICASSO! And me an artist...

    John Richardson's Picasso bio-in-3-parts. And Van Gogh's letters count as a bio, surely?

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  25. And I never quite finished Joe Eszterhas, but was interesting. The Bob Evans parts had me rolling on the floor.

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  26. I hated Belinda Carlisle's autobiography as well. I had high expectations for Grace Slick's autobiography (Somebody to Love) but it was also a disappointment.

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  27. If anyone is looking for a fun fast summer beach read and was into the Hollywood 80's and early 90's hair metal scene there, definitely check out Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City by Anne Thomas Soffe. You can get it on Kindle or for you more traditional readers many libraries have it.

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  28. I read one in the '80's about Ted Bundy that was fascinating and scary. Can't remember the name.

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  29. Andre Agassi's book was really good

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  30. Most books about Freddie Mercury, some aren't exactly truthful, but his life was certainly interesting.

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  31. No One Here Gets Out Alive - the doors

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  32. I am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

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    1. That was a fantastic book! I tell people about it all the time and I read it many many years ago 😀

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  33. The two books by Candace Bergen;
    Murder, Money and Dominic Dunne;
    the two books by Rob Lowe;
    the biography of Prince Charles by Sally somebody;
    Sachi Parker's autobiography;
    Tom Brokaw's "A Lucky Life Interrupted".

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  34. Almost twenty years and nobody can part me from my dogeared copy of Courtney Love by Poppy Z Brite

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  35. Full Service and Ian Mcclagen

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  36. I miss Dominick Dunne's books and articles for vanity fair.

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  37. 'I Blame Dennis Hopper' by Illeana Douglas is pretty amusing

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  38. Wired about John Belushi was pretty good.

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  39. Mia Farrow’s autobiography is probably my favorite of all time.

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  40. The book by Esther Williams is a fun read. She blossomed Old Hollywood tea.

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  41. Where do I begin? I’m a bookworm....I usually choose the Audio Book, if possible, love to hear the story in Author’s voice.

    David Spade “Almost Interesting”
    Joan Rivers “Diary of a Mad Diva”
    Trevor Noah “Born a Crime”
    Willie Nelson “It’s a Long Story: My Life”

    David Sedaris, Leah Remini, Kate Mulgrew, McKenzie Phillips, Rob Lowe, Tatum O’Neal, Allison Arngrim, etc

    If you haven’t been to your Public Library lately, you are seriously missing out!

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  42. PegD, was the book "The Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule?

    I enjoyed "Wallis in Love" this Spring. I little different take on her than most books pursue.

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  43. Anonymous9:35 PM

    -Shout: The Beatles in their Generation- Philip Norman
    -"The Only Way I Know"- Cal Ripken Jr.

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  44. Uhhh??? No one has yet said, "The Dirt"? Motley Crue's autobiography? By the band about the band? It's a trip!!!

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  45. I'm not really a Jane Fonda fan, but I did enjoy her autobiography, which I thought was intelligent and honest. I had actually just started listening to the audio version when Peter Fonda came out with his most recent dumb statements, about wanting to put Republican women naked in a cage in the town square so people could whip them. Somehow after that I lost interest in Jane's stories about Peter's sweet childhood moments.

    Agree that both Slash's and Duff's GnR autobiographies were excellent. Everyone is waiting on the Great White Whale, of course - Axl Rose's autobiography. It's sure to be as much of a mess as the man himself.

    For 80s music fans, I can also recommend John Lydon's second autobiography, Jah Wobble's book, and Adam Ant's autobiography. He's very frank about his struggles with mental illness.

    Peter Hook's book about Joy Division and Ian Curtis is very good; his New Order book less so.

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  46. I've recently recommended it, but "Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild" is the best celeb bio I have ever read. She had an incredible and incredibly sad life, filled with scandal, success, and mental illness. It is infinitely fascinating.

    "I Am Ozzy" is highly entertaining. Ozzy Osbourne is quite the raconteur and has a lot of fantastic stories to tell. I loved all of Sharon Osbourne's memoirs as well.

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  47. @a beautiful virago: Oh yes, I read Million Dollar Mermaid years ago. It really was good. Esther Williams is very funny and a great storyteller.

    And Shout! is probably the definitive and best book on the Beatles ever written, until McCartney writes his memoirs. I read and re-read it multiple times when I was a teenager.

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  48. Shelley Winters, she slept with everyone!

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  49. No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. The updated paperback had just come out (1995) and was really popular in my high school for personal reading.

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