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The secret parts of fortune : three decades of intense investigations and edgy enthusiasms
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- Creator
- Ron Rosenbaum
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Random House, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 799 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375503382, 0375503382
- OCLC
- ocm43083431
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Errol Morris -- Introduction: Ancient Mariners and Airport Motels -- Pt. 1. The Seventies. Dream Dancing. Secrets of the Little Blue Box. Inside the Canned Laughter War. The Subterranean World of the Bomb. Of a Fire at the Billy Rose. Dead Ringers. Troy Donahue Was Always Just Like He Is. A Killing in Camelot. Chariots of the Insurance Salesmen. The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones. The Corpse as Big as the Ritz. Whipple's Last Squeeze -- Pt. 2. The Eighties. The Connoisseur of Scoundrels. God's Fillin' Teeth! Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead. The Frantic Screaming Voice of the Rich and Famous. The Passions of Mario Cuomo. Tales from the Cancer Cure Underground. Oswald's Ghost. Link Founding Father to Sleaze King. Back on the Watergate Case with Inspector RN. Jack Nicholson: The Devil and the Details. Henry: Portrait of a Serial-Killer Hoax -- Pt. 3. The Nineties and After. The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal. The Riddle of the Scrolls. In the Nabokov Archives. Mr. Bill's House of Horror (Bill Gates). Fear and Loathing in the Zagat Guide. My Theater Problem - and Ours. The Emperor's New Logo (Lucent). Chaplin and Benigni: The Arrogance of Clowns. Kim Philby: The Spy Who Created the Cold. The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro. To the Shores of Light - Or, My First Latin Lesson. Much Ado about "Nothing" in Two New Translations of Genesis. Floored by Dickens and Dombey. An Ode to Helen Vendler, Goddess of Keats's "Autumn" Hart Crane's Hieroglyphs: The Unmentionable Truth. Dr. Borges and Dr. Ron Solve the Problem of Memory and Regret. The Catcher in the Driveway. Long Island, Babylon. The Pissing Contest: Oliver Stone versus Quentin Tarantino. Charles Portis and the Locked Trunk Secret. Is Thomas Pynchon "Wanda Tinasky"? Ecstatic Mortification: The Self-loathing Spirituality of Martin Amis. The Hidden History in Ben Hecht's Suitcase. A (Modest) Proposal to Rosanne Cash. Elvis, Healer. Victims of The Dance. The Unbearable Sadness of Tear Gas. Spiritual Lessons from L. A. Stumpy versus Lucille: The Great Pet Debate. Explaining Hitler. Singer's Shadows: Footnotes to Hitler. Explaining Pharaoh. This "Rarest Dream": The Final Affirmation of Shakespearean Romance