PREVIEW:
BILLY COOK - HARD LUCK
The only light leaking into the alley was the sheen from a JESUS
SAVES sign blinking orange and red across the dirty asphalt.
Seventy-six-year-old Gerald Stewart remembers that night. "So
black," he says, "you could hardly see your hand at your
face. Bums that couldn't get into the mission slept against the back
of a building behind Main. You had to be careful where you
pissed." ...
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 PREVIEW:
EDDIE NASH - BAD EDDIE
The once "King of Porn" John Holmes, now a disheveled,
limping mess, led three desperate men up a flight of concrete steps to
kill everyone they encountered. On July 1, 1981, around three in the
morning, they reached the iron security gate of the two-story house on
Wonderland Drive, a dingy, pale structure the color of faded mustard.
Two of the men gripped sawed-off lengths of lead pipe, the handle ends
wrapped with duct tape. The third man, breathing hard and making
wheezing noises, nervously clutched a baseball bat. ...
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PREVIEW:
BARBARA PAYTON - KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE
She got off the Greyhound at the Hollywood stop south of the
boulevard, hair fluffy and yellow with the sun hitting her like a
spotlight. To the first man she recognized, she gave a smile that
electrified him where he stood. She beamed, blue eyes shining. ...
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BARBARA GRAHAM - THE ICE BLONDE
It was a cold night in Burbank as sixty-three-year-old Mabel
Monahan, a once-famous roller skater who had toured on the Orpheum
circuit, was being beaten on the head with a gun. No one heard her
cries. ...
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CRAZY
STREAK |
A bad wind was blowing out of the desert the day the yellow-eyed
blonde showed at the Gas & Eats, her heart-shaped face sunburned,
lips you’d want to eat, and tits that wouldn’t quit for a kid not
even halfway into her teens. I was twenty-two, just out of the army
feeling nothing but mangy as a dog, and soon as I saw her (and this is
the God’s truth), I knew in my gut that’d be no holding back what
I’d believe was a collision of fate. ...
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LIVE
FAST-DIE YOUNG: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean |
Sudden fame came early for James Dean. Confused and
antagonized by the immediate celebrity that descended on him following
the release of his first feature film, East of Eden, Dean chose to
protect himself against Hollywood and the world by surrounding himself
with a handful of "malcontent oddballs." John Gilmore was
among the privileged few.
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