Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler
By the time she retired, Katharine Hepburn had won a record four Best Actress Academy Awards and been nominated twelve times. Her career spanned six decades, and she was universally acknowledged as one of the finest actors in film history. For over two years, Hepburn spoke with striking candor to author Charlotte Chandler about her private self and public personality, whom she named “the creature.” I Know Where I’m Going is a fascinating, delightful, and personal book that brings readers as close as possible to the real Katharine Hepburn.

Reviews
“Charlotte Chandler’s I Know Where I’m Going once again sets the gold standard for celebrity bios.” – Vanity Fair

“Charlotte Chandler has written the most intimate and personal biography of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn ever published.” – Now Playing (Turner Classic Movies)

“Despite Hepburn’s reputation for reticence, here she opens up in surprising and frank detail…. Readers will enjoy this insider look at a famously private Hollywood star.” – Booklist

I wanted you all to be the first to know that HOLLYWOOD DECEPTION, my next women’s fiction book, will be out in April 2010. 

“Just like Jackie Collins, Shelia Goss has a flair for making her characters seem real.  Hollywood Deception was filled with non-stop drama.” ~ Diamond McKenzie

More information coming later.

Thank you Kandie with KanDel Media for creating the beautiful banner to showcase my new book.

In honor of Michael Jackson’s birthday (8/29), you have a chance to win a copy of MICHAEL JACKSON: THE MAGIC, THE MADNESS, THE WHOLE STORY (1958-2009) by J. Randy Taraborelli.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family – including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumours, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind Michael Jackson, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre publicity stunts. This major biography includes the behind-the-scenes story to many of the landmarks in Jackson’s life: his legal and commercial battles, his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, his passions and addictions, his children. Objective and revealing, it carries the hallmarks of all of Taraborrelli’s best-sellers: impeccable research, brilliant storytelling and definitive documentation.

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I wanted to start the week off celebrating love. Congratulations to Victoria Rowell (author/actress) on her recent nuptials to Radcliffe Bailey. 

Excerpt from NY Times:

Ms. Richardson Jackson, an actress (“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”), recalled: “Vicki had been talking to me about her despair, and I told her that I was going to introduce her to someone special. The words came out of my mouth, and the minute they did, I knew they weren’t mine, that they’d come from above.”

Ms. Richardson Jackson had also been telling Mr. Bailey, who had an exhibition at the festival and whose art she and her husband collect, that he, too, would find love. “He had kids and was divorced and I said, ‘It’ll come again, don’t despair.’ ”

To read the entire article, click here.

Do you have your own real life love story to share? 

According to news reports, Bobby Brown, R & B singer and ex-husband to Whitney Houston, has sufferred a mild heart attack.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) – Bobby Brown spent a night in the hospital after suffering a mild heart attack, his attorney said Wednesday. To read more…

However, I received this from Eurweb.com:

BOBBY BROWN SAYS ‘WHAT HEART ATTACK?’ Singer calls EUR’s Lee Bailey to say the widespread reports are untrue. *A healthy-sounding Bobby Brown spoke exclusively with EUR’s Lee Bailey Wednesday to deny published reports that he was taken to two Los Angeles hospitals Tuesday night with severe chest pains that were later diagnosed as a mild heart attack. “I heard that I had a heart attack earlier, but I didn’t,” Brown told Bailey during a phone call Wednesday afternoon. Read Full Story

I’m running out of awards, but had to give Michael Vick the 3rd Dummy of the Week award for this week. Why? If you know folks are watching you like a hawk; why oh why are you smoking some ciga-weed???  This is no Heisman Trophy, but Vick shares this honor with you know who this week.

MICHAEL VICK TESTS POSITIVE FOR WEED: Judge clamps down on his release conditions – QB now has a curfew.
*Things are getting worse by the day for Michael Vick. Some 24 hours after the state of Virginia charged him in the dogfighting case, a drug test has detected marijuana in his system.
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Why Vick why?

According to his attorneys, Bishop Thomas Weeks will contest Juanita Bynum’s petition for divorce.

He needs to let her go and get some help with his anger.

Randy Kessler, one of Weeks’ attorneys, said they are considering whether the counterclaim will accuse Bynum of cruel treatment, the charge her divorce petition levels at Weeks, reports the Associated Press.     

“Cruel treatment is a very vague legal term,” Kessler said. “There’s a possibility that there’s cruel treatment on both sides, but we’re not committed to that position.”     

So people the drama continues. What point is he trying to prove with this move?