March 18, 2004

Laid Bare, by John Gilmore

If you're interested in the fast crowd Hollywood scene and music from the 1960s, you'll love Laid Bare. This true (almost too good to be true) memoir, written in a highly engaging style by a former bit actor who hung out with likes of Janis Joplin, James Dean, Hank Williams, Errol Flynn, Lenny Bruce, Ed Wood, Jr., and Vampira, is loaded with juicy sleazy anecdotes about youth-culture heroes gone wild. At the same time, Laid Bare really gave me a feeling for what things were like for the drug-eating, fast-driving, young and beautiful scenesters of the 60s. Buy from Amazon