Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, David Crosby and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation's sound track.

This book is primarily a study of the psychological threat posed by attractive female characters to the male protagonists of American detective and crime films over a fifty-year period. In the films of the 1940s (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, and White Heat), an attractive female character is literally a murderess, who poses a threat of varying degrees of intensity to the life of the male protagonist. Alfred...