Hollywood Hellraisers

Ever since rich Tinseltown dirt was spilled in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, a cottage industry has arisen that reveals the titillating truth behind the studio publicists' myths. Having focused on an earlier generation of bad boys in Hellraisers, Robert Sellers now turns to younger icons of outrageous behavior.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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