<p>Last stop for hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers and misfits, the Bad and the Beautiful. Fabulous funerals from Rudolph Valintino and Barbara LeMarr to Sammy Davis Jr. , where thousands jammed the streets; glitzy theme park fashioned cemeteries, tombstones shaped like automobiles and parking meters, weird and wonderful epitaphs; Mel Blanc's "That's all folks!" , Over My Dead Body" George Bernard Shaw, "Do Not Disturb" , Constance Bennett. Groucho's disappearing ashes and Errol Flynn's kidnapping. Strange last requests, last promises, last vengeance's. You know them all. California is the place to "go".</p>

Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits

Biographies & Memoirs

Margaret Burk

Gary Hudson

Reference & Collections

The Forum Press

<p>Belle Publishing [Published date: 1995]. Soft cover, 224 pp. Stated First Printing, October 1995. [From back cover] "A Killing on Catalina" brings together the best elements of travel writing with a thrilling murder mystery. Meet high spirited travel writer Cody Green, his lanky, loose cannon wife movie/music critic Jo Beth Dalton and a looney tune movie crew and cast making "Phantom of the Avalon Casino" directed by crazed, suspected cannibal Michael Benton-Wolfe. Hot pants rocker Roxxi is the star, and her band 'Roxxi's Rockets' are there to rock away the nights. Roxxi's husband, mob boss, gutter smart Tony "Big Tuna" Di Carlo and other heavies join them for a heady, rich slew of super raunchy mayhem and murder. The film begins with "Big Tuna' literally losing his head during movie sword play, then quickly moves to foreplay. party time. naked violence and rowdy parties, until more bodies fall. Then the chill sets in as Cody and Jo Beth are forced to flee and fight for their lives. alone at night and at sea in the fog off Catalina. As they say, any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental. On the e other hand. most of the locations from the Avalon Ballroom to the harbor, Main Street to the ice cream shop are pretty accurate, making this book a mystery and travel guide rolled into one.</p>

A Killing On Catalina: An Island Mystery

Belle Publishing

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