Louise Brooks

Barry Paris. Anchor Books, $14.95 (609pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41559-0

This covers actress and author Brooks's life (1907-1985) from her days as a precocious child in Kansas through her sexually promiscuous, hedonistic adult years, here detailed exhaustively. ``The biography is a gossip lover's feast, naming names and telling tales, yet also makes an addition to film history,'' wrote PW. Photos. (Nov.)

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