Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Grave Sites of the Rich and Famous
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List Price: $15.95 $12.44 $ 3.51 ( 22% ) Globe Pequot Patricia Brooks ,Jonathan Brooks
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 929.509794EAN: 9780762741014ISBN: 0762741015Label: Globe PequotManufacturer: Globe PequotNumber Of Items: 1Number Of Pages: 352Publication Date: 2006-09-01Publisher: Globe PequotStudio: Globe Pequot
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Editorial Reviews: A scintillating who's who and who's where of California's dearly departed. You'll find movie stars, sports greats, musical geniuses, eccentric personalities -- more than a thousand of the state's rich, famous, and interesting.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not a ghoulish book!Comment: Very entertaining - also good reference as to whether or not certain names are deceased or not plus dates. As a lover of old black and white movies, I can satisfy my curiousity as to status of actors.Customer Rating: Summary: Grooving California GravingComment: This book really surprised me. A browse through Remains to be Seen in California amounts to much more than picking over the bones of dead actors and historical figures. Nothing so dry as that. On the contrary, there's a great deal of fresh meat to the short biographical write-ups here, and it's well seasoned with humor, irony and opinionated insight. I'd initially thought to give the book away as a gift to my mother in law, but got carried away digging through the various entries, laughing at some, shaking my head in disagreement at others, that I decided to keep it for myself. Not only is the copy now too dog-eared to serve as a gift, but it's too darn funny for my straight-laced in-law. My one complaint is that mixed in with profiles on Jimi Hendrix, Jack London, John Muir, Rodney Dangerfield, etc., are an awful lot of "bios" on really old people that I've never heard of. But of course, my ignorance may be someone else's erudition. Although I'm not one of those people who's dying to visit cemeteries, the authors not only make it look easy, by giving lots of specifics on hours, addresses, tours, etc., but they even manage to make it look fun by listing lunch places near the tour spots. I never thought I'd dig a cemetery book, but this one really rattled my bones.
