On the Shelf Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann By Gill Paul William Morrow & Co.: 384 pages, $19 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “They gave women permission to write about sex,” Gill Paul says about Jacqueline Susann and Jackie …
It’s been said that Hollywood is more an idea than a place, and no task punctuates the notion quite like asking people to choose the best Hollywood book of all time: “What do you mean,” they inevitably ask, “by ‘Hollywood’?” The list that follows, compiled from a survey of experts in the worlds of publishing and entertainment and written by …
Eric Sills, right, listens during closing arguments at his murder trial in Santa Ana before he was found guilty in December. A San Clemente fertility doctor who was convicted of fatally strangling his wife and making her death look like an accident has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison, according to the Orange County district attorney’s …
Dr. Eric Scott Sills was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday after prosecutors argued he had strangled wife Susann Sills and then staged her death as an accident. “We’ve got a patient here who’s fallen off the stairs and I don’t have a pulse,” Sills told the emergency dispatcher, in a recording played for jurors in Orange County Superior Court in …
