F.W. Blanchard: First President of the Hollywood Bowl
by Pamela T. Lundquist and Beverly Blanchard Nelson
This memoir is the story of our uncle, Frederick Woodward Blanchard, and of the family members who supported and cherished him. Fred, a Boston native, came to Los Angeles (population 40,000) in 1886. A visionary, he quickly entered deeply into the life of his adopted city, and he began a forty-year love affair with the City of Angels that continued right up to the time of his death, in 1928.

Weird California
by Greg Bishop, Joe Oesterle, Mike Marinacci
What’s weird around here? That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the best-selling phenomenon, Weird N.J. But why should they stop at New Jersey when there’s so much that’s peculiar, odd, and utterly nutty across the whole U.S.? So the two Marks—along with several other writers with a taste for the strange—have focused on some key locales, giving each of them the full “New Jersey” treatment. Spanning the breadth of the country, from New York to California, these are travel guides of a sort, but to the kind of places voyagers will never find on their everyday maps. Instead, they’re chock-full of local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and bizarre roadside attractions. So come along and join the fun: Some of what’s out there is disturbing, some hilarious, but all of it is unforgettably…weird.
Contains four pages (16 photographs) from the BLA Collection. (Yep, I'm published again in someone else's book.)

The Last Laugh
by Stuart Cooper
Several of my photographs are included in The Last Laugh, a new book which collects together some of the best examples of cemetery humour. From the cowboy graves of the Old West to the gothic headstones of Victorian England, from the tombs of famous actors and politicians to the final resting places of many ordinary people, here is a unique visual record of funny farewells.

The Last Laugh, published by Marlin Press
64 pages with 55 photos, hardcover, 6.25 x 5"
Price $12 plus $5 postage and packing

To order, please contact the publisher: sc.marlinpress@btinternet.com

Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes
by Mark Masek
"Hollywood Remains to Be Seen" is a fascinating, gossipy guide to the 14 most significant Hollywood-area cemeteries and the final resting places of the movie stars who are buried in them. Arranged as an easy-to-follow tours of the properties, the 14 chapters - one for each cemetery - include histories of the cemeteries and a detailed listing of exactly where more than three hundred stars are buried.

Final Curtain: Deaths of Noted Movie and Television Personalities
Everett Grant Jarvis, revised and updated by Lois Johe
"The Big Book o' Graves," a large format book of lists that detail every aspect of celebrity death and grave locations, cross referenced by names, cemetery locations, types of death, stats up the wazoo. An invaluable reference guide for the serious thanatologist as well as the casual grave hunter.

Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites : Fifteen Driving Tours With Directions and the Full Story, from Tallulah Bankhead to River Phoenix
E.J. Fleming
This one is hot off the presses - Pre-order it now!

Death Certificates of the Rich and Famous : A Guide to the Deaths of Celebrities
Gerard H. Reinert, George Anderson(editor), Annie Anderson(editor)

Death in Paradise: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner
Tony Blanche, Brad Schreiber

The Death of James Dean
Warren Newton Beath
Other books by this author

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
Evelyn Waugh

Tombstones : 75 Famous People and Their Final Resting Places
Gregg Felsen

The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book : The Incomparable Guide to Movie Stars' Homes, Movie and TV Locations, Scandals, Murders, Suicides
William A. Gordon

Rocky Horror, From Concept to Cult
Scott Michaels

Morbid Curiosity: Celebrity Tombstones Across America
Elaine McCarthy

L.A. Stalker
David Kilpatrick

Celebrity Death Certificates
M. F. Steen

Dearly Departed, Vol. 1
by Scott Michaels
Filmed in Hi-Definition, this feature-length documentary focuses on how and where Hollywood celebs have died, humorously led by Hollywood historian Scott Michaels (E!'s "20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders," Dearly Departed Tours, FindADeath.com). The film features 18 profiles, with modern-day visits to the real L.A. locations where the action went down (over 50 locations in all), as well as historical footage, photographs, death certificates and autopsy reports, all supported by meticulously researched details and interviews.

Dearly Departed is entertaining, funny, shocking, and loaded with surprising revelations that shed new light on even the most well-known stories, and bring some of the more obscure tales to the screen for the first time ever.

The DVD also contains a 15-minute bonus video of Scott Michaels' annual presentation to Hollywood Underground in October 2006.

Running time: 95 minutes
Format: DVD-R

LA Confidential

Day of the Locust


Sunset Boulevard


All About Eve


Chinatown


Hollywood Scandals


Hollywood on Trial