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Trashy “unauthorized” biographies are as popular now as idealized “lives’’ of imperial heroes were a hundred years ago, but if Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous goes into summer re-runs and you don’t want to pony-up the full drop for Kitty Kelly's latest libels, there’s a dumpster-load of gossip around at knock-down prices, Albert Goldman is making a 1775 Main St. 929-7166 a 2 a eS a Bring this coupon to Public Storage and get . 2nd Month ae i Ed 2s poe Bridge Ofter expires July 14, 1991 and is good at this Jocation only. Subject to avadabibty. Umit one space per customer. Not good with any other coupon. New rentals only. NN5SSP291 CE Ge John Moore BOOK REVIEW lucrative career out of speaking ill of dead rock stars. He started at the top, with Evvis, but tried to upstage himself with The Lives of john Lennon, which you can pick up at any Coles or Smithbooks (the new WHSmith/ Classic Bookshops marque) for $4.99. 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Should you prefer Tinseltown to backstairs at Buckingham Palace, there is Alexander Walker's Vi- vien, the life of Vivien Leigh, The Unbridied Marilyn: Her Life From Ato Z, both $4.99, and for sports fans, Joe and Marilyn for $3.99, by Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer. Dedicated dirt-diggers may also enjoy Higham and Moseley’s Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, which for $4.99 exposes the Sultan of Suave as an a!coholic sadist, at Smithbooks. Woop EXTERIOR STAINS Wednesday, June 26, 1991 — North Shore News - 25 into the mire Literary lion-huntess at Coles in Cap Mail can track down Gerald Clark's Capote, (the man whose largely unwritten novel-as-gossip, Answered Prayers, terrorized New York cafe society for years) for $4.99, Carl Rollyson’s hefty bio of Lillian Hellman for $3.99 cames with the added bonus of her long invelvement with Dashiell Ham- mett, the ‘other’ great tough-guy mystery writer, author of The Maltese Falcon, who was stricken by terminal writer's block at the height of his popularity. If you've been staying up tate or taping Rosamond Bernier’s ex- cellent PBS lectures on Picasso, you'll want to scour Smithbook’s outlets for Adrianna Stassinopolous Huffington’s Picassu: Creator and Destroyer for $4.99, a decidedly non-Cubist portrait of a macho misogynist who happened to be the most in- fluential artist of this century. 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