Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club J-Zone’s Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit And A Celebration Of Failure  

  J-Zone didn’t find fame and fortune in hip-hop. But at least he got a book out of it. 

  December 13, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club La Toya Jackson’s La Toya 

  After covering La Toya Jackson’s 2011 memoir Starting Over, Silly Show-Biz Book Club takes a look back to her markedly different 1992 autobiography La Toya.

  November 3, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club La Toya Jackson’s Starting Over  

  A memoir chronicles a history of abuse and family tension, fuzzily.

  August 23, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Robert Hofler’s Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale Of Sex, Drugs, And Rock ’N’ Roll Starring The Fabulous Allan Carr 

  The producer of Grease lived a life of sordid excess even by Hollywood standards. 

  August 18, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt 

  Mötley Crüe’s tell-all has a reputation as the ultimate tale of rock ’n’ roll debauchery. But is there a point to its tales of lowlife and high living? 

  July 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Dustin Diamond’s Behind The Bell 

  Screech from Saved By The Bell struggles to deny a past he doesn’t understand by positioning himself as a rockin’ awesome pussy-magnet.

  June 14, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom by Janet Hubert

  She played Will Smith’s guardian until acrimoniously parting ways with both star and show. But Janet Hubert isn’t bitter. Oh wait. Yeah she is.

  May 19, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The Other Other Guy’s Fallin’ Up

  It's hard to identify with a member of Black Eyed Peas who thinks his songs are silver and pink, but this memoir almost makes it possible.

  May 17, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Rodney Dangerfield’s It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime Of No Respect But Plenty Of Sex And Drugs 

  A funnyman’s not-so-funny memoir.

  April 28, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Larry Harris’ And Party Every Day: The Inside Story Of Casablanca Records

  An insider offers a view from the center of the label that kept disco pumping and Kiss in make-up.

  March 22, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Kiss And Sell: The Making Of A Supergroup

  A key member of Kiss’ former financial team tells all (or at least the parts about how the band spent its money).

  February 23, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s A Shore Thing

  A Jersey Shore star makes her literary debut.

  January 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Here’s The Situation

  “The Situation” “wrote” a “book.”

  November 17, 2010 | 12:01pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Killing Willis by Todd Bridges

  Crack gets you all the girls, and stealing from a drug dealer will get you a baseball bat up the ass.

  May 20, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Thirty-Nine Years Of Short Term Memory Loss

  Tom Davis did a lot of drugs. And some other stuff.

  April 9, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone

  March 3, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club “I slept with Nas” double feature

  One artist unites two very different hip-hop tell-alls.

  February 18, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club David Lee Roth’s Crazy From The Heat 

  January 18, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mackenzie Phillips’ High On Arrival 

  Mackenzie Phillips' memoir isn't just gross. It's really, really sad.

  January 5, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The Michael Jackson Tapes by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

  How to get the most out of your friendship with a pop icon: leading questions, constant flattery, and merciless self-promotion.

  December 15, 2009 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mike Sacks’ And Here’s The Kicker

  Inside the not-always-funny world of funny people.

  August 11, 2009 | 1:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mark Curry’s Dancing With The Devil

  A disgruntled Diddy disciple spills the beans.

  July 1, 2009 | 12:07pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Nitro’s Nitrofessions

  Steroids are all fun and games until they turn you into a shell of your former self.

  June 25, 2009 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club I Married Dee Dee Ramone

  It's not easy, being married to a Ramone.

  June 16, 2009 | 1:12pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Fatty fall down, make tragedy: The Chris Farley Show 

  Recounting the tragicomic, quintessentially Midwestern existence of Chris Farley 

  June 9, 2009 | 11:10am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking

  LSD lectures from Cary Grant, bralessness in outer space and the lighter side of mental illness are all explored in the twenty-fourth entry in the ongoing series on show-business books. 

  February 10, 2009 | 1:17pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Eminem’s former bodyguard’s whiny little bitchfest

  Scandalous reservations from Eminem's Bible-thumping former bodyguard highlight the 23rd book in this ongoing series.

  February 3, 2009 | 11:45am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Silly Little Show Biz Book Club #22 Richard E. Grant's With Nails And I

  In a break with tradition, the Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club explores a genuinely good book, in this case Richard E. Grant's delightfully droll diaries

  January 5, 2009 | 10:38pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club # 20 and 21: Double Daredevil Edition starring Evel Knievel and Don Simpson

  The twentieth and twenty-first installment of Nathan Rabin's exploration of the shittiest show-biz books examines the reckless careers of bad boy producer Don Simpson and daredevil Evel Knievel

  December 22, 2008 | 4:33pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club #19 John Leguizamo's True Hollywood Stories

  Exploring John Leguizamo's literary house o' buggin'

  December 15, 2008 | 2:20pm -