Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. So Much, So Young. Drew Barrymore. Danny Bonaduce. Gary Coleman. Jackie Coogan. Macaulay Culkin. Patty Duke. Lindsay Lohan. Tori Spelling. 2. So Much Ego. Richard Burton. Bette Davis. Rex Harrison. Al Jolson. Jerry Lewis. Madonna. Jayne Mansfield. Burt Reynolds. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Barbra Streisand. Mae West. 3. So Much Neurosis. Woody Allen. Jean Arthur. Kim Basinger. Marlon Brando. Joan Crawford. Greta Garbo. Betty Hutton. Jennifer Jones. Oscar Levant. Marilyn Monroe. Sean Penn. Peter Sellers. 4. So Much Partying. John Barrymore. John Belushi. Montgomery Clift. Sandra Dee. Robert Downey Jr. 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. 5. So Much Power. Johnny Carson. Michael Eisner. Mel Gibson. Louis B. Mayer. Louella Parsons. Martha Stewart. Lew Wasserman. 6. So Much Rich Living. Marion Davies. Zsa Zsa Gabor. Sonja Henie. Paris Hilton. Howard Hughes. Demi Moore. Mary Pickford. Gloria Swanson. 7. 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.

About the Author

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 .