The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols
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Periodicals
Classic Film Collector, Daily Variety, Ebony, Films in Review, Globe, Hollywood Reporter, In Style, Jet, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times, National Enquirer, New York Daily News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Newsweek, People, Sight & Sound, Star, Time, Us
Television
A&E: Biography
E! Entertainment Television: Mysteries & Scandals
E! Entertainment Television: True Hollywood Story
Lifetime: Intimate Portraits
Websites
All Movie Guide: www.allmovie.com
The Celebrity Morgue:
www.celebritymorgue.com
Dead People Server: dpsinfo.com/index.html
E! Entertainment TV Online:
www.eonline.com
Find a Grave: www.findagrave.com/index.html
Internet Movie Database: www.imdb.com
Mr. Showbiz: mrshowbiz.go.com
Roadside America: www.roadsideamerica.com
The Tombstone Tourist:
www.teleport.com/~stanton/
About the Author
James Robert Parish, a former entertainment reporter, publicist, and book-series editor, is the author of more than 95 published major biographies and reference books of the entertainment industry, including Jason Biggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell’s Story, The Unofficial “Murder, She Wrote” Casebook, Let’s Talk—America’s Favorite TV Talk Show Hosts, and Prison Pictures from Hollywood. Mr. Parish is a frequent guest on cable and network television documentaries that deal with the performing arts. He currently resides in Studio City, California.