And that's exactly what she's done.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1592407889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt
|author=John L Williams
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Two quotes on the back of the dust jacket testify to the power and public perception of Eartha Kitt during her lifetime. Orson Welles once called her ‘the most exciting woman in the world’, while to the CIA she was ‘a sadistic nymphomaniac’.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857385755</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's Inferno
|author=Michael Haag
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Here be spoilers. Not so much in my review, but certainly in its subject, a very quickly produced companion guide to the latest [[:Category:Dan Brown|Dan Brown]] blockbuster. It's not so much a page-by-page guide, but certainly serves as an educational and intelligent look at the background to the biggest-selling book of 2013.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251800</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Boy About Town
|author=Tony Fletcher
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=My stepchildren, who were not even born at the time, would disagree with me fiercely. But for those of us who were growing up during the 1970s, it was a very exciting time to be a popular music fan. Tony Fletcher, who was born almost ten years after me, evidently agrees. In this memoir of his formative years, covering the years 1972 to 1980, he conveys the thrill of how it was to be a schoolkid who grew up loving and eventually becoming part of the scene. It all started with the purchase of a David Cassidy single and ended up with him becoming founder-editor of a fanzine and interviewing household names while taking his O-levels. In fact it didn’t exactly end up that way, for these days he is known best for his highly-respected biographies of The Who drummer Keith Moon and R.E.M.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021679</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Cemetery Gates: Saints and Survivors of the Heavy Metal Scene
|author=Mick O'Shea
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=The way to hell is paved with dead heavy metal stars, or so you might be forgiven for thinking after reading this book. On the other hand, some have made it back from the brink. In this book, Mick O’Shea has summarised in twenty chapters the lives and often troubled times of ten 'saints' who ended up inside the cemetery gates, and ten survivors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654834</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dylan Jones
|title=The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Most of us can count on the fingers of two hands, perhaps only one, a select few special days when it was as if the eyes of the world were focused on one major event. These include 9/11; the day Princess Diana was killed; and for those of us with even longer memories the day Kennedy was shot. Add to that grim litany an event which had far more positive results.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Sellers
|title=What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=For rather more of his career than he, his family and closest friends might have liked, the name Oliver Reed was a byword for booze, brawls and all types of laddish behaviour. As Sellers’ very full and remarkably objective biography reveals, it was a funny yet sad life all at once. For although he repeatedly played up to the image of the lovable rogue which he had created, underneath the bad boy of popular legend he was at heart a professional actor who could always deliver a first-rate performance on the film set when required.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147210112X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sylvie Simmons
|title=I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=If you or I wanted to write a story about an imaginary figure who began as a novelist and poet, then became acclaimed as a singer-songwriter in the swinging sixties, made and lost a fortune, became a monk, and returned to a musical career at an age when most mortals are well into retirement, and found himself not only more popular than ever but also playing to the largest audiences in his entire life, it would be dismissed as total fantasy. Nobody could make it up – and nobody needs to, because in a nutshell that is the life (so far) of Leonard Cohen, the subject of this biography and surely one of the music business’s most unique figures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549328</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nige Tassell
|title=Mr Gig
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Born too late to remember the 60s and early 70s, music lover and journalist Nige Tassell, who has written for ''The Guardian'', ''New Statesman'' and others, lived the life for some years as punter, reviewer, roadie, DJ and promoter. Then he married and became a father, and the most important gig (if the one with the least comfortable seats) was the kids’ primary school nativity play ten days before Christmas. Around 2010 the midlife crisis hit with a vengeance, and the urge to hit the road in search of what live music was all about these days came upon him. That does not just require private transport capable of taking roads the length and breadth of the land in its stride (and the car passed the test - just), it also requires a certain amount of courage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721617</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Christophe Castelli
|title=Making of Life of Pi - A Film, A Journey
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Before I'd seen the film of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi I knew the end result would leave me either wondering 'how did they make that?!' or 'WHY did they make that?!'. The fact I ended up watching it twice before the general public had their chance, and lapped up a repeat viewing within a fortnight, says it all. There's no plot spoiler in the fact that the creators left us with a visually dazzling, splendidly luxurious-looking piece of cinema, one that left me scrabbling for tiny faults to nitpick with and just acknowledging how brilliant the FX and acting were. And, as the resulting question was the right one, I am still interested very much in the answer - luckily for me this book provides it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166382</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Fisher
|title=Tommy Cooper 'Jus' Like That!': A Life in Jokes and Pictures
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=I grew up watching Tommy Cooper, and watching my dad do impressions of Tommy Cooper. I thought he was hilarious (the real Tommy!) and loved his expressions as he repeatedly tried and failed to do magic tricks! This book is rather unusual as although it is a biography of sorts, giving information about Tommy's life and his history in the world of entertainment, it isn't text heavy, and so mostly Tommy's story is told through photographs and pictures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809311X</amazonuk>
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