Death gave a new awareness of these stars, a new vision of how they had really been or now seemed to have been. The hindsight of death gives new meaning to old responses, irremediable altering our emotional reaction to these heroes as well as our appraisal of them. It is this curios phenomenon which the author has explored in this book.
Rudolph Valentino --
Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe --
Carole Lombard, Gerard Philipe --
John Garfield --
Montgomery Clift --
James Dean --
Zbigniew Cybulski --
Elvis Presley --
Bruce Lee