The Last Days of Dead Celebrities

John Lennon, Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, Ted Williams, John Denver -- these are just a few of the fifteen celebrities profiled here, each passing in a way that was as unique and distinctive as the life of the individual. Some slipped quietly into the night -- Welles died peacefully in bed with his typewriter still balanced on his stomach -- while others met a more shocking and violent end, as did Lennon and Tupac Shakur.

Working with an extraordinary level of access, exclusive material, and the cooperation of the stars’ family and friends, Mitchell Fink sets the record straight on these very human, very vulnerable public figures.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

A semi interesting way to pass your afternoon, 2008-07-09
Not a bad read. Short stories on many celebrities, some of whom are interesting, not much dirt though, a quick read.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

So far so good., 2007-10-17
I have just started reading and it is very well written. The author sticks to that facts and notes who he got the information from.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Thoughtfully Written, 2007-03-19
If you're into this sort of reading, this is not a bad way to spend an afternoon. The author has apparently done a great deal of interviewing and research to write these stories, and they are well and thoughtfully written. I, personally, wasn't interested in everyone in the book, but the stories of the last days of the people in which I was interested made me realize afresh that we are all, celebrity and non-celeb alike, common in our humanity, and are all traveling the same road to the same destination.


5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Dead Celebrities, 2007-01-16
This book tries to sell itself as a Hollywood Babylon, slezy stories, dead celeb type of book - but open it and find a dreary book indeed. It's got no real information in it, in the case of Orson Welles, the author simply transcribes his last intervew. It's a dull book that tries to sell itself as something different. Don't buy it.


6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Couldn't put it down, 2006-11-25
I was away for a convention for four days and this book consumed all my airplane time to and from the destination city. I finished it and gave it to my mother when I got home, and now she can't put it down. What surprised me were the sensitive, first hand accounts of these celebrities from people who were with them in their final days or knew them. But mostly those who were there. It was very first person as a read, as opposed to third person, from the outside of their world looking in.

And it reminded me how real these celebrities are. They do dumb things, or great things, but have normal moments or occasional hissy fits and then die. I know the topic is rather grim and someone voyeuristic, but I highly recommend this book.

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