This paperback book is sort of a condensed version of Warren Smith's huge tome, Who's Who in Hell. with a focus on celebrities such as Woody Allen, Katherine Hepburn, Andy Rooney, George Clooney and many, many others. The style is quite witty and there is lots of dish on the "damned" famous people. You can open to any page and have a good time, especially if you are a freethinker! Religious fundamentalists will probably want to avoid this book, unless they want to learn about famous people who they believe are destined for the infernal regions.
Like they say, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
This book is a must read for anyone who is a "fan" of the late, great Isaac Asimov, who was perhaps the most prolific writer who ever lived and who was truly a "Man for All Seasons." But even those who have never read Asimov or have never heard of him would benefit from being exposed to the thoughts of this icon of reason. It is humorous, moving, inspirational and informative, and is a fitting tribute to a person who was truly one of the great intellects of all time. It was not for nothing that he was dubbed "A Natural Resource."
This book brings to life the glorious decades of the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's, when night life in New York meant more than yuppie scum club hopping and dancing to grunge music in lofts. The wonderful Stork Club, and its colorful owner Sherman Billingsley, were an integral part of those decades. The book abounds in great anecdotes and captures what it must have been like to be admitted past the gold chain at the front entrance to the elegant interior of the Stork Club, where the likes of Walter Winchell, Jackie Gleason, Errol Flynn and Ethel Merman, to name a very few, held sway. How I wish I could go back to that era for just one night and spend it at the Stork Club!
