A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip Acclaimed as a powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic murders (the Black Dahlia and Manson cases), author John Gilmore now turns his attention to our morbid obsession with celebrity and with caustic clarity unstintingly recounts his relationships with the likes of Dennis Hopper, Janis Joplin, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg, James Dean, Lenny Bruce, and many more.