One reason I generally shy away from celebrity biographies is that they typically involve too much authorial sleight-of-hand. Though they’re written in the first-person, it’s always obvious that the actor or athlete or entrepreneur behind the “I” didn’t actually commit any words to paper. Even the savviest ghostwriter can’t help but leave their fingerprints all […]
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…celebs missing fingers. The Tony Iommi story is one of my favorites, since the sausage-factory accident helped contribute to his trademark sludgy sound. (To compensate for his altered anatomy, Iommi detuned his guitar three half-steps down.) Didn’t realize that Boris Yeltsin had been careless with a grenade, though.
