LAID BARE: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives & the Hollywood Death Trip "Beautifully written in a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski..." Reading Laid Bare is like finding a series of lost diaries by such icons as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Janis Joplin, all of whom John Gilmore - an LA-born child actor, almost movie star, director and writer hung out (if not slept) with before they became iconic. Beautifully written in a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski and several light years away from the cobbled-together sleaze the title and dust jacket suggest, this is an astonishing book, ...  Read it above all for its insights into the failed lives and seamy side of Hollywood, indicating - as Gary Indiana notes in the foreword - that celebrities "don't change into wonderful human beings just because ten million people know who they are. They just have a bigger arena in which to be assholes." (NR)
Official John Gilmore Site