Paul Bern was second only to Irving Thalberg at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1930s. Known throughout the movies as Hollywood's father confessor, Bern had earned a reputation for being a loyal and supportive friend. This biography features almost 100 rare photos, many never before seen.

For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset...

Tells the sad story behind the 1972 murder of a 14-year-old Massachusetts boy and how the Catholic Church's history of whitewashing priest abuse was the cause and the reason it went unsolved until now. For the first time, Death of an Altar Boy exposes church complicity in the cover-up and hiding their priests' involvement with an organized ring of abusive priests active at the time of the killing.