Hollywood movie studios control a great amount of money, power and hearts and minds.  Marshall Karp's The Rabbit Factory is a bizarre what-if mystery about crime in and around a Disney-esque studio.  I loved it, but Walt's successors might not. Nancy

Celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli has crafted a 99.9% readable tale of the life of Elizabeth Taylor in Elizabeth.

While the author is clearly a fan of his subject, he does impart some strange facts such as "Elizabeth was born with residual hypertrichosis, an excessive body hair condition."  The knowledge that a gloriously beautiful woman not only was born looking like a monkey but also most likely had a nose job is just what the rest of us need when a glance in our own mirrors is cause for depression.  Nancy

 

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