Tragic Hollywood Beautiful Glamorous And Dead eBook Jackie Ganiy
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Have you always been fascinated by the morbid side of Hollywood? Did you cut your teeth on books like Hollywood Babylon, and shows like Mysteries And Scandals? This book promises to deliver all the salacious details about the stars you remember, not for their films, but for their tragic short lives. What really happened to Natalie Wood aboard The Splendor that cold November night? Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Just how decadent were the days of the silent movies? Maybe you think you've heard it all? Trust me, you haven't! Chock full of new details, shocking photos and even a segment on haunted Hollywood, you've never seen a book quite like Tragic Hollywood. Read about the unbelievable thing that happened to Errol Flynn AFTER he was dead. Find out why Sharon Tate is said to haunt her Cielo Drive Neighborhood to this day. You will not be able to put this book down! These stories are delivered with a wit and poignant observation that will leave you saying "WOW"
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Tragic Hollywood Beautiful Glamorous And Dead eBook Jackie Ganiy
This is a decent read on a rainy day. She's a bit fuzzy on some of the facts of her stories though. But all in all not enough to give you a frown as you read. The one sticking point that bothered me is her 'story' on Marilyn Monroe. So many writers decide to fill in the blanks with their own versions of her life and what it was like. I'll mention only one thing here for space sake. MM thought up her own name change, not Fox, though they did let her know her original name basically sucked. Monroe is a family name that MM choose, not the other way around no matter what Ms Ganiy wants to write. The author also chose to omit things that could explain alot, but decided to play it like MM was the total airhead blonde, which she was not. MM was ahead of her time in many ways, but that's not juicy stuff I guess. Dumb like a fox maybe...this gal had brains. I keep hoping one day someone will write about her in an honest and open way, but I won't be holding my breath...Product details
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Tragic Hollywood Beautiful Glamorous And Dead eBook Jackie Ganiy Reviews
I will admit that the information the book presented was interesting. I wasn't at all prepared for the autopsy/crime scene photos, but that didn't necessarily bother me, it wasn't gory or anything, I just hadn't expected it.
The reason for the low star number is the reason everyone else stated. It's full of copy editing errors. Once I realized what was happening, I attached a highlighter to the book and made a sort of game out of finding the errors as I went along, and I took photos, though it seems unsporting to post any in the review. Dropped or added words, like the author had read it, changed her mind but forgot to go back. There was a paragraph in Natalie Wood's section which was almost identical to a paragraph on the following page, as if she or the editor had forgotten to delete one.
The other thing that annoyed me, which is really more a 'me thing' than anything, was the over familiarity of the writing, and the inconsistent name use. For example Robert Wagner was referred to by Robert, Wagner, Robert Wagner and RJ without any rhyme or reason. I didn't care for the author using nicknames like RJ, but if she had established the nickname and stuck with it throughout the entire section it would have been less annoying. Also, at least twice she referred to someone by their last name before mentioning them prior to that point.
It really just needs a good editing. If this is the Fourth Edition, it makes me wonder about the other editions.
Normally I extole the virtues of a book I really like first and then get negative, if any negatives exist. This time I am going to review this in reverse order.
This book could have used a good editing job. While it is not terrible, I spotted misspellings and some grammatically incorrect statements. However, the negatives didn't amount to much and did not take away from my overall enjoyment of this book. The only major thing that threw me were pictures without captions. A lot of times I wasn't sure what I was looking at. I would have liked captions that provided some information such as whether I was looking at a picture of Erroll Flynn's corpse or looking at Marie McDonald amidst a crowd of people. Speculating can be fun, but it got frustrating at times.
The good news. This book was wryly funny despite the fact that these stories were sad and some bordered on tragic. The author Jackie Valinda Ganiy sounds like a southern belle, but she freely admits to being a California girl with too much time on her hands as a kid. She fell into an early fascination with the old movies she watched on tv way before anyone ever even thought of flat screens. O.K., Jackie may not be a southern belle but she is knowledgeable and a real charmer from my point of view. She has an easy conversational writing style and her tongue-in-cheek comments edge on sarcasm at times. I like that because I can relate to her. I found myself thinking a lot of the same stuff. As Jackie freely explains, her interest in old movies eventually led to the actors in them. As she researched them she came to realize that not only were their lives not glorious but they often were pretty sad if not completely tragic. Many of these lives took tragic turns. In Hollywood and the entertainment industry she would come to the conclusion that it is all smoke and mirrors. Little is true.
This book starts with the silent era and leads to players in contemporary films. They share one thing in common. They all came to strange and sad endings. As for the veracity of the claims made and stories told, for the most part they are true. I state that because so much has become a combination of verifiable fact and urban legend that I often wonder what is true. Jackie tells her reader, the old saw about Jayne Mansfield losing her head (being decapitated) is false. She either lost her wig or her scalp. On that score as well as others, Jackie does her best to cut through the ridiculous speculation and movie studio publicity that is often difficult to decipher and/or clarify.
Between Jackie's easy banter that adds to the overall narrative and her choice of subjects, I truly enjoyed this book. It wasn't overly wordy while it was detailed enough to be informative and really quite enjoyable. She managed to keep her stories interesting and avoided performers who lived long and productive lives and passed away possibly alone in their beds.
This came as a recommendation to me based on past purchases and interests. While not lofty reading material, it was a great diversion from my current boring reading material of textbooks and tech guides.
I really wanted to like this book. I'm a long time film buff (with a useless film degree) and I enjoy a gossipy, tidbit packed book about "the stars" as much as anyone. I understand that it is an offshoot of the author's Facebook page (which I have followed for years) but would it have been too much to ask to have an editor look it over before submitting it for publication? Do you not have spellcheck? "Thier" instead of "their" ?? Duplicate paragraphs. Poorly written, juvenile psychoanalysis. I wish she had taken the time to add depth to the book by including extra info, most of which is common knowledge. In her chapter on Marie McDonald, much is made of her marriage to Harry Karl, but no mention of the fact that he later married (and bankrupted) Debbie Reynolds. Am I the only one who knows that Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona O'Neill is playwright Eugene O'Neil's daughter? She rails about the lack of 12 step programs in the 1950's (which would have presumably "saved" one of the actors from drug addiction) when Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1939. A good editor could've made this mediocre book into an excellent one.
This is a decent read on a rainy day. She's a bit fuzzy on some of the facts of her stories though. But all in all not enough to give you a frown as you read. The one sticking point that bothered me is her 'story' on Marilyn Monroe. So many writers decide to fill in the blanks with their own versions of her life and what it was like. I'll mention only one thing here for space sake. MM thought up her own name change, not Fox, though they did let her know her original name basically sucked. Monroe is a family name that MM choose, not the other way around no matter what Ms Ganiy wants to write. The author also chose to omit things that could explain alot, but decided to play it like MM was the total airhead blonde, which she was not. MM was ahead of her time in many ways, but that's not juicy stuff I guess. Dumb like a fox maybe...this gal had brains. I keep hoping one day someone will write about her in an honest and open way, but I won't be holding my breath...
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