All Blog Posts Tagged 'Hollywood' (7)

But I Loved him ...

Dawnette Knight was obsessed with Michael Douglas. She claims to have met the actor in 2002 at a party in Florida. She knew he was married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, and she didn't like it. Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for her role in "Chicago," became her hated enemy.

Between January 2003 and May 2004, Knight sent 19 threatening letters to Zeta-Jones, describing what would happen to her. One said she would be chopped into pieces "like Sharon…

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Added by Susan on March 11, 2012 at 4:08am — No Comments

She didn't have an enemy in the world ...

In 1989 Rebecca Schaeffer, co-star of the TV sitcom My Sister Sam, was a twenty-one year old actress on her way up, having recently finished a film directed by Dyan Cannon.

On July 18, 1989, her doorbell rang. Because the apartment complex intercom wasn't working, she went downstairs to see who it was and saw a young man in a yellow shirt outside the door. She didn't know…

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Added by Susan on November 23, 2011 at 1:06am — No Comments

SYNOPSIS OF WAIFS OF THE WASTELAND

At the height of Prohibition in 1925 Hollywood, Joe Holder, an ex-con just released from prison, seeks to reclaim a lost love. But there is a hitch – in the years since he has been locked up, she has become a movie star. So begins WAIFS OF THE WASTELAND.…

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Added by Wayne Beauvais on January 1, 2011 at 1:14am — No Comments

If You Get Shorty, You'll Get Me... Hollywood and Satire.... Pick up a copy of Mystery Readers International

I have an article featured in this month's issue of Mystery Readers International:

Added by Michael P. Naughton on July 23, 2009 at 3:47am — No Comments

EVA BATONNE ON MYSTERY PANEL: FRESH BLOOD, INTRODUCING NEW MYSTERY WRITERS MAY 2, 2009

Come meet the author in person at BURBANK LIBRARY, May 2 from 2-4 Available to sign books and chat...

Event Title: Fresh Blood – Introducing New Mystery Writers

Date: May 2, 2009

Time: 2 – 4 PM

Location: Burbank Library, Buena Vista Branch

Address: 300 N. Buena Vista Street

City, State, Zip: Burbank, CA 91505

Phone: Louise Paziak (818) 238-5600 Central/(818) 238-5620 Buena Vista

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Added by Eva Batonne on January 24, 2009 at 2:12am — No Comments

Not at His Best in SERENADE, Cain Was Still Able

Serenade James M. Cain (1937)

As Serenade opens, protagonist Jack Sharp is banished from Paradise, subsisting in Mexico as a kind of operatic stumblebum. He lost both his golden voice and his European Eden when he deserted his muse over the sin of homosexuality. The agent of his temptation and fall was rich, charming Winston Hawes, his maestro and mentor in Paris.

In his Mexico hell, Jack nevertheless finds his Eve, a three-peso whore named Juana Montes, who… Continue

Added by Paul McGoran on July 24, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Last Embrace

Denise Hamilton takes the reader back to Los Angeles, in the heyday of Hollywood, for two violent weeks in 1949 in her first standalone, The Last Embrace. The reader sees the city, and its dangers, through the fresh eyes of Lily Kessler. Her impressions bring the story to life.

Lily was a stenographer and spy for the OSS in Europe. Following the war, she found herself without a job, as so many women were as the men returned. She lost her… Continue

Added by Lesa Holstine on July 24, 2008 at 12:20am — No Comments