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Article: Mug Shots of the Rich & Famous; Two New Books Catch Celebrities Red-Handed -- and Red-Faced
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- The Washington Post
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- March 20, 1996
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What's weirder, creepier, more delicious (choose one, or all)
than a book devoted to celebrity mug shots?
Answer: two books devoted to celebrity mug shots.
By strange coincidence, St. Martin's Press is shipping 50,000
copies of a paperback called "Mug Shots: Celebrities Under Arrest,"
a trove of jailhouse photography, to bookstores nationwide -- just
as Andrews and McMeel is shipping 75,000 copies of its paperback
titled "Famous Mugs: Arresting Photos and Felonious Facts for
Hundreds of Stars Behind Bars."
Both offer a heady combination of the expected (here's tough
guy Mickey Rourke, busted for spousal abuse) and the surprising
(that nice Tim Allen is a convicted coke dealer?). ...