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<span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shirley Temple was
Hollywood’s biggest star from 1935 to 1938 while she was age 7 to 10. As #1
box-office earner, the curly-haired actress with her iconic 56 ringlets made 20
feature films for Fox Studios and single-handedly kept the company from
bankruptcy during the Great Depression.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">By 1940, she was a washed-up child star and left Fox with her
parting gifts of an upright piano and a few of her costumes. You can read about
her wild ride of kiddie stardom in her 1988 best-selling autobiography,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Child Star,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>in which Shirley vividly
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The films made Shirley and her family extremely wealthy in the
1930s when most people were unemployed and struggling to afford a 25 cent meal
or a 15 cent day at the cinema. It was during this time, in 1935, that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (in a scenario straight out of the musical
ANNIE) said, “During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower
than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an
American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget
his troubles.” In her movies, Shirley (often missing a parent or completely
orphaned) used her pluck and adorable charms to make adults fall in love,
inherit riches, and melt the frozen hearts of villains. She was America’s
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I was very young I saw the film <b>Bright Eyes. </b>Before the story begins we learn that Shirley's dad died in plane crash. During the film, her mother ran across the street with a birthday cake for Shirley in a box and was hit and killed by a car. Close-up on the smeared, crushed cake. Next scene - handsome godfather takes Shirley up in a plane and tells her she (Shirley) is in heaven and now her mother is too. This little death hag was coming to life. Mesmerized. I was five.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Shirley Jane Temple’s story begins Monday, April 23, 1928 when she
was born in Santa Monica Hospital to George and Gertrude Temple. The couple had
two older sons, Jack and Sonny, and were excited to have a daughter. George
Temple was an assistant manager of a bank branch at Washington Blvd &
Vermont while Gertrude was a homemaker at their modest residence at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=948+24th+Street&entry=gmail&source=g"><span style="color: #1155cc;">948 24th Street</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">in Santa Monica. They parked Shirley’s
crib in the living room next to the record player and at 8-months old she was
standing and swaying to the music. By age 3, she was enrolled at Miss Meglin’s
dance studio on Radford Ave in the Valley. Judy Garland, age 9, was a fellow
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little Shirley was noticed at the Meglin dance class by a producer
who cast her in his “Baby Burlesks” short film series in which diaper clad tots
reenacted popular films. Shirley played scorned women and Marlene
Deitrich-style vamps - and yes, it all looks very <a href="https://youtu.be/KKcmHwjfCbg">Minipops</a>. Shirley herself called it a "cynical exploitation" of childhood innocence. </span></span><br />
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the kids misbehaved they had to go sit on an ice block in a dark wooden box
used as a camera sound booth. Shirley later recalled, “as far as I can tell,
the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche.” Right? The experience taught her to
pay attention and get it right the first time because time is money. When the
production company ran into financial issues, Shirley’s father promptly bought
her out of the existing contract to make her a free agent. These borderline
sordid films fell into public domain and landed in 1980s VHS bargain bins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shirley’s big break came when Hollywood songwriter Jay Gorney saw
the adorable dimpled tyke singing and dancing in the lobby of the Ritz Movie
Theater at Wilshire & LaBrea. He invited Shirley to the Fox lot on Pico
Blvd. for a singing/dancing audition on December 7, 1933. Shirley nailed his
‘Baby Take a Bow’ song and was immediately cast and put under contract. Film
star Harold Lloyd saw the audition and proclaimed, “My God! Another
Coogan!”. Jackie Coogan had paved the way for child actors, but unlike
Coogan, Shirley wouldn’t be left penniless after her film labors…although she
surprisingly didn’t end up a millionaire either. More on that later.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The year 1934 would begin Shirley’s new 6-day-a-week life at Fox
making 6 films that earned her a miniature Oscar statuette for her hard work.
Her parents and brothers moved to a bigger house at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=259+19th+St.+Santa+Monica&entry=gmail&source=g"><span style="color: #1155cc;">259 19th St. Santa Monica</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">when the Shirley merchandising money
flooded in along with the thousands of fan letters delivered to Fox weekly.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Future Dr. Smith on the television show <i>Lost in Space</i> acted with Shirley when they were youngsters. He referring to her as Shirley Pim... well, let him tell you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fox Studios gave Shirley a picket-fenced bungalow with livingroom,
dressing room and kitchen. It is still on the <a href="https://blog.21cf.com/blog/2016/07/06/fox-archives-shirley-temple-bungalow-building-69-fox-lot">Fox lot as Bungalow #69</a> (great photographs!). Shirley
had her daily lessons in the dressing room from her beloved tutor Frances
‘Klammie’ Klampt. The classroom also had a day bed for nap time. Shirley
reportedly practiced dance routines on the kitchen floor and played outside on
her swing and watched her rabbits in the cage next to the bungalow. She worked
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shirley’s mother Gertrude also made a weekly salary as her
daughter’s coach and hairdresser - and on set, Gertrude would whisper “Sparkle,
Shirley, Sparkle” as her cue to focus. To prepare for a film, Gertrude read the
entire script for Shirley and acted all the parts, then would practice her
daughter’s next day’s scenes. Shirley developed a near photographic memory and
could annoy fellow actors by knowing everybody’s dialogue. She corrected Lionel
Barrymore one day and he stormed off set. He made sure to bite his tongue,
because Shirley could be sent home immediately by welfare workers if an adult
cussed on the set in her presence. Shirley was told to go apologize to “Uncle
Lionel”. She won Barrymore back to set with her apology and flattery of his
acting. As Jan Hooks’ SNL “Bette Davis” once said, “The ONLY thing worse than a
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and said her first tooth fell out when she was putting her hands and feet in
cement at Graumann’s in 1935. She was 7 years old that year, but her mother
lied to her daughter and to Fox, so the world thought she was age 6. Shirley
eventually found out about her real birth year a half dozen years later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="color: black;">“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">By 1936, the Temple family needed a larger home with more security
- so they moved to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=227+N.+Rockingham&entry=gmail&source=g"><span style="color: #1155cc;">227 N. Rockingham</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">in Brentwood. In the backyard was a large
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Seven Dwarfs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>at the Carthay
Circle Theatre at Crescent Heights and San Vincente Blvd in L.A. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Wizard of Oz</b>. Shirley wanted the part of Dorothy but Fox refused to loan
her out. MGM producers soon realized Shirley’s singing voice was limited anyway
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lavish color feature of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The
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pre-adolescent Shirley played an ghastly little monster on a journey searching for the bluebird of
happiness. Along the way, she visits her dead grandparents in The Land of the
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beastly Shirley - or unborn children talking about their upcoming brief
lifespan for that matter. It flopped. Fox Studios knew 12-year-old Shirley’s appeal was dwindling and
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In the shade of today's attention towards sexual abuse, Shirley had to withstand so much of this and at such a young age. According to published sources David O. Selznik chased her around the office. George Jessel tried to force himself on her and she kneed him in the crotch. She was "nearly raped" by a "studio executive".<br />
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Shirley’s press tour for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The Bluebird</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>would be her last for her home studio - and could have been her last ever. Shirley recalled singing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The Bluebird<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>theme for a radio show when a woman stood in the audience and pointed a gun at the stage. She was wrestled to the ground and Shirley’s life was spared. The would-be assassin told police that her baby girl had died the same day that Shirley was born - and that Shirley had stolen her soul. In her book, Shirley stated, “The tale seemed understandable to me.”<br />
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The dolt didn't know Shirley's real birth year.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fox was happy to let her go, but first her parents had to pay the
studio $300,000 to buy her out of her final contract term and be legally free
to pursue other offers. At age 12, she was immediately enrolled at Westlake
School for Girls and graduated in 1945. The other children were cruel to her, she recalled, </span></span><br />
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ingenue roles and after kicking around MGM and Selznick Studios for a few
films, she eventually ended up making B-films at Warner Brothers like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>The Story of Seabiscuit</i></b>.
Grown-up Shirley was never much of a draw for audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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At age 15, Shirley met her 1st husband, 23-year-old John Agar of
Chicago at her neighbor Zasu Pitt’s pool party, as you do. Shirley was smitten with the
Air Force flyer and they married when she was age 17 at Wilshire United
Methodist Church - where military and local police had to hold back
throngs of fans. The wedding reception was held in her Brentwood backyard -
where they moved into the remodeled playhouse cottage and later brought home
their baby daughter, Linda Susan (born 1948). Shirley helped to get her
handsome hubby into films but their marriage failed. Agar was reportedly a
heavy drinker and philanderer. According to one source he came home with a woman and danced in their playroom for two hours, kissing her many times, while Shirley was home. She filed for divorce in 1949 on the
grounds of mental cruelty. He had issues with being "Mr. Shirley" which I get, but still. There were rumors of Shirley having suicidal thoughts, once considering driving her car off of a cliff. She was awarded custody of their daughter.</div>
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advisors that she only had $44,000 left from her $3.2 million dollar earnings.
Shirley kept calm while hearing of her parents free spending and her Dad being
misguided with investments. Shirley recapped this tense moment years later
saying, “My attitude has always been get it over with and get on with life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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31-year-old Charlie Black at a cocktail party. He was the rich son of the
president of Pacific Gas & Electric and a (Silver Star) decorated war hero
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even type. I make films.” She immediately became enthralled when the handsome
man confessed he had never seen any of her films. During WWII, Black had served
in the South Pacific and afterwards lived for a time in Tahiti, so he wooed
Shirley with a Tahitian love song. After having J. Edgar Hoover do a safety background check, (who declared Black "clean as a hound's tooth, patriotic, from a fine family") the couple married that December and
eventually settled in Northern California. Their marriage produced two children
and lasted 54 years. While Charlie Black lay dying of cancer in Summer 2005,
Shirley sang to him that same Tahitian love song, and said farewell to the love
of her life.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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aquaculture and oceanography, was supportive of Shirley when she returned to
host and star in a weekly series called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Shirley
Temple’s Storybook<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>for
NBC-TV. The show ran 1958 to 1961 for 41 episodes and then Shirley returned to
her Northern Californian Republican suburban housewife lifestyle. Shirley ran
for CA Congress (on a pro-war platform) in 1967 and lost. She quickly pivoted
to diplomacy. Richard Nixon appointed her as a UN delegate (1969), Gerald Ford
appointed her as Ambassador to Ghana (1974-76), Jimmy Carter appointed her as
Chief of Protocol (1976-77), and George H.W. Bush appointed her as Ambassador
to Czechoslovakia (1989-1992). She didn’t work during the Reagan Administration
which Shirley surmised was due to her telling a convention crowd (in front of
Nancy) that she remembered co-star Ronald Reagan as a really good kisser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Shirley lived a private life after her marriage to Charlie Black,
but at age 44 in 1972, she called for the press and they came. Shirley wanted
to tell the world that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and
after a biopsy, she had consulted with her doctors and insisted upon a “simple
mastectomy” with only the breast tissue removed. This is now standard procedure
but in the years prior to 1972, a woman would be routinely put under for a
biopsy, and if preliminary pathology suggested cancer, would awaken from her
unconsciousness having undergone a radical mastectomy ( with chest muscles
removed along with breasts and many lymph nodes). Shirley told women that they
had the right to question doctor’s orders and demand input into their treatment
and make decisions. After going public with her illness, she received 50,000
letters of support - and inspired many other high-profile women including First
Lady Betty Ford to speak of their breast cancer survival.<br />
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the country. She appeared on numerous talk shows and told stories and
demonstrated poise and a game sense of humor. One time, Shirley Temple
Black was called for jury duty and the panel learned that the case involved
erotic bondage. Shirley told that the judge read out case details - items like
velvet handcuffs and blindfolds, then he stopped and dismissed Shirley from the
jury selection. He told her that he didn’t want to be the judge who put Shirley
Temple on a sexual bondage case. Shirley ended the story with: “And I was just
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Woodside CA home surrounded by family members and caregivers. A friend commented:<br /><br />She went quietly, just as she wanted.</span></span></div>
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formerly of the grunge band, The Melvins), her son Charles Jr;
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With regard to the Shirley Temple drink that was invented at Chasen's Restaurant, it was a mixture of ginger ale, grenadine syrup and a cherry. shiver.</div>
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<i><b>"If I'm on a plane , the pilot sends the stewardess over with one. When I'm in a restaurant, someone would send one over. I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad!"</b></i></div>
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Michael Jackson once asked to meet her of which she was surprised but agreed. Of the meeting, Jackson said, "We said nothing to each other at first, we simply cried together. She could share a pain with me that only others like my close friends Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin know." allllrightythen.</div>
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Shirley's children auctioned off <a href="https://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=50+790+231+4294951110+4294967087">all of her shit in 1995.</a> Damn. I wish I knew about it but then reviewing the lots, its very tchotchke heavy.</div>
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Daniel Joseph Lockin was an actor, singer and dancer who appeared on Broadway and most famously as Barnaby Tucker in the 1969 film,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Hello, Dolly!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>with Barbra Streisand. Because of (and despite of) his savage murder in 1977 at age 34, he is almost completely forgotten. Since so much of television now is about celebrity and death or true crime, it's shocking that Lockin is still barely a footnote.</div>
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In private he left a life and talent extinguished much too soon, and left his family, friends and dance pupils shocked by the weak sentence given to his killer.</div>
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But we'll always have reruns of <b style="font-style: italic;">The Gong Show. </b>More on that in a bit.</div>
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Born in Lanai, Hawaii, but raised in Omaha Nebraska, Danny was the only child of Joseph and Jean Lockin. His father Joe had met and married his mother Jean upon her return to the midwest after her post-high school stint as a Manhattan dancer in the last days of vaudeville. Joe accepted a job as operations manager at Dole Pineapple and the couple married and settled in Hawaii where their son Danny was born. After the War years, the family settled back in the States where Jean opened a successful dance studio in Omaha. Danny spent much of his childhood at the studio and danced so well that his mother wasted no time in creating a professional act for her son. Young Danny (white) and Neal Reynolds (black) were paired as “The Two Checkers” and performed their song & dance and pantomime act on the summer state fair circuit and in hotels of Omaha. Eventually 1950s racism and segregated venues put an end to the duo’s act - but Danny had the showbiz bug and was not stopping his pursuit of stardom. </div>
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In 1959, the Lockins moved to their new home in Anaheim California in Orange County (35 miles south of Hollywood) where Danny excelled in academics, theater arts and gymnastics at Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove. After Joe died in Summer of ’61, Jean worked at her busy dance studio in Anaheim and Danny landed a few small parts on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Dr. Kildare</i></b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Father of the Bride</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>My Three Sons</i></b>, and did a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Head & Shoulders</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>TV commercial. He also unsuccessfully auditioned for the Hitler-youth role of Rolf in Fox’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>The Sound of Music</i></b>.</div>
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The 17-year-old Danny, with his 5’6” small frame, red hair & freckles, could (and usually did) play roles younger than his own age. After high school graduation, like his mother before him, he went to try his luck in New York City. In 1966, he got the role of Barnaby in the traveling production of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Hello, Dolly!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>where he played opposite several Dolly’s including Betty Grable, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Lamour and Eve Arden.</div>
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In 1967, it was announced that 25-year-old Barbra "left side only" Streisand would play 1890’s widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Hello, Dolly! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>Broadway’s original acclaimed musical Dolly: Carol Channing recalled hearing this news, “ I was doing the stage musical at Expo ’67 at the time…and I had the feeling that I was Mark Twain and had just died and become an observer at my funeral.” </div>
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Danny Lockin was offered the role of Barnaby in the film version of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Hello, Dolly!</i></b>, after 13 tests <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(MASHED POTATO! FASTER! FASTER!)</span></i> for MGM legend-turned-film-director, Gene Kelly. Danny was on top of the world and that year married chorus line dancer, Cathy Haas. The couple moved from NYC to L.A. for Danny’s 6-month rehearsal/shooting schedule and Cathy became pregnant during the 1968 film shoot which began April 15th 1968 on Stage 16 at Fox Studios on Pico Blvd.</div>
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Besides budget woes, and Barbra’s insecurity that she was miscast (as everybody kept writing in the press), the production chugged along despite the gloom of: 1. Gene Kelly acting frustrated most of the time 2. Walter Matthau hating Barbra the diva ("I have more talent in my smallest fart than she does in her entire body." 3. Barbra complaining about her “tap dancer for a director” 4. Future Phantom Michael Crawford insulting Barbara the diva 5. Danny Lockin trying to revel in his first big Hollywood role but souring when the press only wanted to talk about... <i>herrrrr</i>. </div>
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By the time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Hello, Dolly!</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>finally premiered in December 1969, some things had changed: Barbra’s film <b><i>Funny Girl<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>had made her a superstar and earned her an Oscar. Danny Lockin’s marriage was over - with his wife having left him that previous summer, filing for divorce, and taking their 6-month old son, Jeremy Daniel with her. Danny was reportedly devastated but had to keep smiling and performing on Broadway, where he was back playing Barnaby Tucker opposite the final stage Dollys : Phyllis Diller (wut) and Ethel Merman. In the Merman production, his stage partner ‘Minnie Day’ was played by future Mary Tyler Moore Show costar Georgia Engel.</div>
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Danny was age 31 in 1974 when he moved back California and into his mother’s Anaheim home and began working as assistant manager and teacher at The Jean Lockin Dance Studio.<br />
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While Danny had been living his life in New York in 1960s, his alma mater’s city of Garden Grove CA had sprouted many gay bars, including The Happy Hour, Rumour Hazzit, the Mug, the Iron Spur, the Knotty Keg, the Saddle Club and DOK West. During these years, the gay bars in Garden Grove actually outnumbered West Hollywood’s. That wouldn’t last, and Orange County eventually settled back into its ongoing role as “conservative cousin” to progressive Los Angeles.</div>
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Sunday August 21, 1977 began as an exciting and happy day for Danny Lockin. He and his gal-pal (and fellow dance instructor) Billie Jo Conway were booked to appear on TV’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>The Gong Show.</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their song and dance act was fun and visually quirky (as Billie Jo weighed 230 pounds.) but they were planning to pull out all their best tap moves. His mother Jean drove him up to Burbank for the taping, which was to be aired in primetime on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1005277068" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 14</span></span>. </div>
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His mother told reporters, “It was a good night for him. He had the old light in his eyes.” The pair performed well and owned the stage with their “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” song and dance routine. </div>
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They were given 10s across the board from celeb judges, including one from that “rascule” Jaye P. Morgan who cattily joked that Billie Jo looked like current male singer Paul Williams. As they left the stage, host Chuck Barris thanked them for “doing their little<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>stuff</i>.” Danny and Billie Jo tied with another act for first place and danced amongst the confetti.</div>
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Jean said that afterwards they celebrated with dinner and a martini, then her son asked her to drop him off at The Mug (gay bar) in Garden Grove so he could unwind and “play the pinball machine.” Danny was wearing his skin-tight dance pants (with no pockets to carry ID) when she dropped him at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1005277069" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11pm</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and he told her he had $5 for a taxi to get home.<br />
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Of note: Danny had earned the reputation of being quite difficult and was described as a live-wire and unruly when drinking. Regulars at the bar said he was quick to take offense at everything. He could be polite one minute and belligerent the next. Tedious.<br />
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The man who offered the ride was another regular at The Mug named Charles “Chuck” Leslie Hopkins, a 34-year-old Air Force veteran, medical dispatcher for UCI Medical Center and a "known homosexual" according to detectives. The pair ended up back at Hopkins’ place at the Kona Palms Apartments in Anaheim. Inside the place there was S&M gear, porn, poetry books, a portrait of Sophia Loren on the wall and a Judy Collins album ready to spin.</div>
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The apartment building was managed by "admitted homosexual" Dennis Reeves who would rent to "other gays." I love these quotes. If you think this place looks great, the sun is playing tricks with you. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Troy still to this day threatens to throw my ashes here after I die. Obviously the pool has been filled in.<br />
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Newspapers surmised that if there was noise coming from his apartment #10 overlooking the pool. There was no one in the immediate vicinity to hear it. Apartment #9 directly across from Hopkins’ door was vacant and tenants alongside his rooms in apartment #11 were gone. There was no one under Hopkins’ place as it was over a garage.<br />
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<i>Apartment #10 <br />God, If I lived here, I would weep every time I had to ascend these stairs.</i><br />
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Chuck Hopkins called police several hours later and told police an intruder had tried to rob him. Danny Lockin was found stabbed to death. But not just that. He had been stabbed more than 100 times. A majority of the wounds were 3 inches deep and 9 of the wounds were the potentially fatal one. 12 on the left side of his back, 2 postmortem, the right side of his back shows 16 stab wounds, 7 are postmortem. 12 to his right side, 5 postmortem, 17 wounds on his left buttock, all postmortem, 26 to the right buttock, all postmortem. There are several more, some defense wounds... you get the idea.<br />
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Hopkins was arrested immediately. While they were in the apartment, police found a porno book of pictures of male sex torture. This “evidence” which prosecution planned to use to show Hopkin’s pre-meditation and “playbook” of intent was later ruled out as police hadn’t obtained it under proper search warrants. Hopkins pleaded innocent to his charge of First Degree Murder By Torture and after a delayed 1978 trial was eventually given a 4-year sentence for Voluntary Manslaughter - which Danny’s family and friends called a travesty of justice. </div>
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But back on that Monday evening, a night after she dropped him off, Danny’s mother was very worried and calling hospitals to find her son. It took investigators two days to identify the body. On<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1005277071" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, August 23</span></span>, Mrs. Lockin finally received the news from police after they’d identified her son using fingerprints on file from his drunk driving arrests.<br />
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The official cause of death: Exsanguination. Multiple stab wounds to heart & lungs.</div>
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Danny Lockin was buried in Westminster Memorial Park cemetery in Orange County. His grave is in Block 29, Section 219, Grave 4 with a simple stone that calls him “Beloved Son”.</div>
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In a September 7, 1977 OC Register article titled ‘<b>Barnaby’ Sings His Last Song</b>, Danny’s family friend and his mother’s former dance partner Vivian Nehemias summed up her beloved surrogate child Danny: “The police came to the house and went over his room looking for (S&M instruments/adult toys) but there was no evidence of that. He wasn’t into anything kinky. He was just a good old fashioned American bisexual. He had worked hard since he was 8 playing clubs, fairs, television shows, the stage. But he became very temperamental. His temper, his demand for perfection, and drink did him in as far as show business is concerned. He fought hard and maybe he would have made it again if he had lived. Danny was many people. He was very complex and very talented. He tried to go his own way. That’s showbiz.“</div>
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Mrs. Jean Lockin continued to teach dance until she suffered a series of strokes in the late 1980s. She passed away of pneumonia on May 23, 1990 in Fountain Valley, Orange County, CA.</div>
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The murderer reportedly died in 2006 of a heart attack and lung cancer.</div>
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Prior to his death, Danny Lockin was considering a career in choreography and starting to record an album of original songs. The working title of the record was obviously<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>not</b></span><b> </b>called: “What Was Barbra Streisand Like To Work With?”</div>
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Wanna see the murderer's mailbox?<br />
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I think <b>Hello Dolly</b> is probably one of the most cannibalized movie sets in history.<br />
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Here is a bar from the set of the film that has been reassembled in the <a href="https://www.nickpaul.net/">Magic Castle </a>in Hollywood.<br />
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Before my friend The Godfather of Graving, Roger Sinclair passed away, he gave me a few things. One was this little booklet of pictures of a funeral and a corpse. Now I don't remember who it was. </div>
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I'm pretty sure it was a criminal.</div>
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Fact: In 1991 Dick Sargent who portrayed Darren #2 on <b><i>Bewitched</i></b> came out as a gay man. </div>
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<span class="s1"><i>“We talked about it on the set that this was about people not being allowed to be what they really are. If you think about it, <b>Bewitched</b> is about repression in general and all the frustration and trouble it can cause. It was a neat message to get across to people at that time in a subtle way.”</i></span></div>
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Being an all around groovy gal who supports her pals, Elizabeth sat alongside Mr. Sargent in a convertible to co-Grand Marshall the 1992 West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade.</div>
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When asked to comment about the day and their being in the parade, Lizzie allegedly said she was doing it,<br />
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<br />Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-14973466968213584882016-12-21T13:21:00.001-08:002018-01-08T15:23:23.647-08:00Findadeath Update: The Death of Anton Yelchin from Star Trek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anton Yelchin was born in Leningrad. His parents were professional figure skaters and they came to the US as refugees when he was young. His parents worked by teaching ice-skating to Americans. On the suggestion of friends, Anton went into acting. He earned parts in TV shows and movies like <i>Fright Night</i> and <i>Alpha Dog</i>. He won several acting awards and his career was going just swell. </div>
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His mega-break happened when he was cast in the latest <i>Star Trek</i> reboot as the Russian character Chekov. Honestly, couldn’t they get a transgender person? How racist.</div>
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In his free time Anton played guitar. He was in a band called the <i>Hammerheads</i> for a bit. </div>
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Anton made enough money to purchase a house in the hills of Studio City, CA. It was built in 1940 and is 1500 square feet with 2 bed 2 baths and a pool. 1.14 mil was the price tag.</div>
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He then became a member of the 27 Club.<br />
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Fans came to the gates and left flowers at the scene and on social media, the emotional statements spewed. (When you care enough to hit “send”). His parents took out an ad in the a paper, thanking people for the support.</div>
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Three months prior to the incident, this particular model of Jeep Cherokee was recalled because the gearshift was so, that it could confuse the driver as to which gear it is in. The driver could “think” that the car is in PARK when it actually was not.</div>
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Train-wreck Lohan queefed out a statement blaming Hollywood for his death. <i>“Surround your life with good people and know who your true friends are.</i>” Because your true friends will be there when your car rolls backwards and pins you to a fucking gate. Asshole. I hate people.</div>
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As I understand it, this is a temporary marker and soon there will be a statue installed. There are a lot of statues in that area now. A pal commented that it's starting to look like a chess set.<br />
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<i>Star Trek Beyond</i> was released a month after Yelchin’s death, and the film was dedicated to him.<br />
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3 years before he died, Anton Yelchin appeared onscreen with his <i><u>own</u></i> <u>grave</u><br />
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In October 2016 there was a <i>Star Trek</i> Convention somewhere, to which I say 'of <i>course</i> there was'.<br />
I'm not judging, just observing. There was a <a href="https://twitter.com/Treknewsviews/status/761135033088405505/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tribute wall </a>for fans to sign for Anton. In November 2016 and exhibit of Anton’s photography went on display in Hollywood.<br />
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Trivia: The actor Walter Koenig who created the role of Chekov in the original <i>Star Trek</i> series (which was produced by Lucy. TRUE!) had a son Andrew (who played a creature named "Boner" on <i>Growing Pains)</i> who disappeared back in 2010. It was big news here. </div>
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Boner ended up <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/growing.pains.actor.dead/">topping himself</a> and is buried near Anton at Hollywood Forever.<br />
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On Saturday October 8, 2017 a statue was unveiled at Anton's grave. A lifesize statue of Anton. Yes.<br />
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Brian Donnelly snagged this ultra spooky picture of it.<br />
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<i> Vote for Pedro!</i></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bernard Fox, known to millions from his most famous TV roles on <b><i>Hogan’s Heroes</i></b> (as bumbling Col. Crittendon) and <i><b>Bewitched</b></i> (as warlock playboy Dr. Bombay), passed away from heart failure on December 14, 2016 at age 89. At the announcement of the esteemed character actor’s death, his obituary was published worldwide via the internet and his name trended on Twitter for hours.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fox was acting in a play in Rome in 1959 when he met the love of his life, an American actress named Jacqueline Holt. Jackie was a California girl and after a few years of visiting each other, they married in 1962 and settled in Los Angeles.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fox had another incentive to come to Hollywood – a BBC-TV writer-producer who had liked his work had promised to help him find work in U.S. television. Fox found work on <b><i>The Danny Thomas Show,</i></b> and soon after made a splash as Malcolm Merriweather, a British bicyclist who made several stops in Mayberry on <b><i>The Andy Griffith Show</i></b>. Soon his career was off and running while he and Jackie raised their two daughters.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fox worked steady in the 60s playing aristocratic Brit roles on <b><i>The Dick Van Dyke Show; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; F Troop; Perry Mason; McHale’s Navy</i></b> , <b><i>Love American Style</i></b> and dozens more. Fox became so well-known and popular that he told his agent the he’d no longer audition – if they wanted him, they should know what he could do. His schedule was tight and sometimes he would work two days (Tues & Wed) on <b><i>Hogan’s Heroes</i></b> and the next two days ( Thurs & Fri) on <b><i>Bewitched</i></b>. Fox later reflected that he enjoyed days of the 60s television when he could return again and again as different characters. One gig that did not please him was working with <b><i>The Monkees </i></b>– he called them “rank amateurs” years later when asked about the experience. Their style of ad-libbed buffoonery was not his cup of tea.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fox’s tenure on <i><b>Bewitched</b></i> started in 1966 where he first appeared as a defacto Witch Hunter. His British charms and professionalism appealed to Bill Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery who asked him back to play warlock womanizer Dr. Bombay. Fox said he based jolly, boisterous Dr. Bombay on his former Naval Officer that was hard of hearing and spoke loudly to everybody around him. Dr. Bombay appeared 18 times and wore 29 different costumes – as his character was often summoned while wearing odd garb ( 3 times he was summoned while wearing a football uniform having come from “tackling his nurse. Hah ha ha.” <b><i>Bewitched</i></b> producers did not mind a recycled joke.) Fox remembered his time on the <b><i>Bewitched </i></b>set as professional and friendly – with cocktail carts pushed out when Elizabeth won large horse bets, and enjoying the expletive-laden blooper reels at the annual Christmas parties. (Montgomery swore like a sailor when she flubbed lines.) <b><i>Bewitched</i></b> ceased production in December 1971.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fox continued to work in steal-the-show guest spots throughout the 70s and 80s on television and lent his voice talents in the Disney cartoons <b><i>The Rescuers</i></b> (1977) and its sequel, <b><i>The Rescuers Down Under </i></b>(1990).</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">During his 6-month shoot in Rosarito Beach – Baja Mexico for <b><i>Titanic</i></b>, Fox worked night after cold night from 7pm to dawn. One scene (eventually cut from the film) required him to stand in the ice cold water tank on an overturned lifeboat. Fox told an interviewer that the set had hot tubs on the ready for actors with hypothermia.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ephron called in Bernard Fox to discuss him possibly returning to the role that he created. Later it was announced that Fred Willard was doing the part of Dr. Bombay – but as fate would have it: his effect-laden scene involving an entrance on a CGI elephant proved to be too challenging for Ephron, and the scene was cut from the film. Bernard Fox was spared having to see a pale imitation of his beloved Dr. Bombay.</span></span></div>
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Errol Flynn<br />
June 20, 1909 - October 14, 1959<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Todd Dale</span><br />
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<i>“I may as well confess, at the age of twelve I fucked a duck”</i><br />
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Errol Flynn was a rare type of movie star. He was one of the first celebrities whose on-screen persona was heavily linked with the individual himself. This persona epitomized a charming yet unbridled sexual force. Boys worshiped him, men wanted to be him, and women wanted to go to bed with him.<br />
He made 58 films. Some wonderful and many forgettable. Although one of the highest paid and biggest box office draws of his day, by 1945 his movie-star status was nearly finished. By 1958 he lost it all.<br />
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In the end, he didn't give a shit.<br />
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Born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1909, Errol Flynn was a non-conformist, rebellious and very charming boy. By early puberty he had become highly sexualized.<br />
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Flynn’s father, Dr. Theodore Flynn was a respected marine biologist professor. He caught Errol experimenting with ducks one day. Flynn explains the tale in his autography, <b><i>My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn </i></b>(1959)<br />
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<i>“I fancied myself a scientist...</i><br />
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<i>I have heard that ducks cannot digest fatty pork, something in its intestinal make-up caused the bird to pass the pork with a minute or two. We had plenty of ducks in our back yard. I pondered a night over this.</i><br />
<i>It occurred to me that it would be interesting to tie a string about ten feet long to the pork. Out came the pork, which I then gave to another duck with the same result, holding onto the string that entered the first duck’s mouth. In a few minutes, I had a half dozen ducks tied together beak to rectum on this greased string”</i><br />
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The irony is that Flynn’s movies are the least thing interesting about him. His life is the stuff of legend. Long before coming to Hollywood, Flynn had been sailing, trading diamonds, tobacco, rare bird feathers, running a plantation, slave trading—in short, pirating all over the Papua New Guinea to make his treasure.<br />
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<i>“We fritter our lives in detail, but I am not going to do this, I am going to live deeply, I am going to front the essentials of life, to see what is has to teach and above all above all not to discover when I die, that I have not lived”</i><br />
- Errol Flynn’s journal<br />
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Moving to London in 1934 after starring in the low budget (bad) Australian film, <i><b>In the Wake of the Bounty</b></i> (1934), he decided to make a career in acting. His acting resume was a creation of his own, which he freely admitted in <i><b>My Wicked, Wicked Ways</b></i>. He did take acting seriously at this point and trained for over a year with different theater companies throughout Britain, working on both stage and screen. Things changed quickly for Errol when Jack Warner wanted him to star in the production of <i><b>Captain Blood </b></i>(1935), a big gamble on the 25-year-old unknown Flynn. While still learning his way around Hollywood, he became quickly involved with French actress Lili Damita. Lili was six years older and equal to Flynn’s sexual vivacity. Lili liked women, and Flynn liked them too, but the marriage was based on the bedroom and boozy bars. Flynn was in another girl’s bed before they had a chance to settle down. Although she knew what he was like from the start, his late nights and womanizing left Lili bitter and vengeful. Neighbors learned to associate Flynn's arrival at home with the sound of breaking crockery and slamming doors. Her hatred of Errol was relentless, even years later in her claims to Flynn’s cash and assets till the day he died.<br />
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Their marriage did produce a son, Sean, who was a photo-journalist. <br />
The resemblance is pretty remarkable. <br />
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Sean was on assignment in Saigon when he disappeared in April of 1970. His body was never found.<br />
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After <i><b>The Adventures of Robin Hood</b></i> (1938) Flynn became a household name. By 1941 he had starred in over 17 Warner Bros. films. With America entering WWII in December of that year, Errol attempted to enlist in the armed services. He failed the physical exam due to multiple heath problems (including at least one heart attack), recurrent malaria (contracted in New Guinea), chronic back pain, chronic tuberculosis and numerous venereal diseases. This created an image problem for both Flynn and for Warner Brothers. Flynn was the supposed paragon of male physical prowess. Warner continued to cast him in athletic roles, including such patriotic productions as <i><b>Dive Bomber</b></i> (1941), <i><b>Desperate Journe</b></i>y (1942) and <i><b>Objective, Burma!</b></i> (1945).<br />
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So many of Flynn’s Hollywood contemporaries were doing their part in the War Effort, he felt humiliated that he wasn’t able to. Jack Warner had no desire to publicize the health problems of one of its most valuable assets, and never defended Flynn’s lack of military service. This and his bizarre friendship with Hermann Erben gave way to one of Hollywood’s most outlandish rumors: that Flynn was a “Nazi spy”. Flynn was not a “Nazi spy”. Erben was a German-Jewish physician, and a Nazi. He was one of many Flynn hangers-on. Flynn was affable and approachable - almost to a fault. Flynn enjoyed the company of interesting people and no doubt Erben was <i>verrrry </i>interesting. Erban served in the German military intelligence often assuming the title "Doctor". At one point, US intelligence regarded him as one of the three most dangerous operatives in Mexico.<br />
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In 1980, Charles Higham published, Errol Flynn: The Untold Story. In his biography, Higham alleged that Errol Flynn was a fascist sympathizer who spied for the Nazis before and during World War II (On the single fact that Flynn was friends with Dr. Erben) and wait for it…. Flynn was also bisexual who had affairs with many men (On the single fact that this stuff sells books). Not that there's anything wrong with it. Other claims were that Howard Hughes had a romance with Cary Grant, Hughes was centrally involved in Watergate, offering material assistance to some of the conspirators, and quite possibly Hughes died of AIDS in 1976 though the first documented case of the virus was in 1981. Pure bullshit.<br />
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Personally, from what I have read by those closest to Flynn, including his ex-wives; Errol would never do anything that would bring shame upon his father, his children or America. Being a playboy and boozer is one thing; all this is too silly to even discuss and by all accounts, Flynn felt very much indebted to the USA that had given him so much and became a US citizen in the 1930’s. As for Flynn being bisexual? There is no evidence to support this other than Higham’s unfounded claims.<br />
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More importantly to Flynn’s life, there were three things he treasured in life besides women: His son, Sean, born in 1941, his yacht <i><b>Sirocco </b></i>and his beloved Mulholland Farm. After years of drifting with no real home, Flynn at 32, built his dream home; Not in “the flats” of Beverly Hills that most stars of the times lived, but way up on top of Mulholland Drive. He bought 12 acres to escape from all the bullshit below.<br />
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Flynn’s Mulholland Farm is now legend - Part farm, part playboy mansion and even a family home. Black tie dinners one night; nude pool parties the next. Flynn, always looking for a laugh and thrill had a staircase installed that led to a catwalk, so he could walk over the upstairs bedrooms and peer down to one-way mirrors on the celling below to see what was going on: a personal peep show for the most wanted ladies’ man in the western world.<br />
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The cerebral and worldly side of Errol is always lost with the wild and wicked side. Flynn was not a product of Hollywood; he made a living from it. A veracious reader with many interests, it was during this period Flynn published his first book, the well received <i><b>Beam Ends</b></i> (1937), an autobiographical account of his sailing experiences around Australia as a youth. This was a much-needed outlet for him. Though on top of the game, Flynn was always restless. By 1941, as he was starting to resent Jack Warner’s typecasting him for “keeping him in Robin Hood tights”<br />
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By 1942 he was wealthy beyond his dreams. When not holding court at Mulholland Farm he was out on <i><b>Sirocco</b></i> sailing with his friends, and of course, many young ladies. His freewheeling, hedonistic lifestyle caught up with him in November 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee accused him of statutory rape. There is no doubt Flynn had sex with many under-age girls. David Niven recalled being on<i><b> Sirocco </b></i>at Isthmus Cove at Catalina Island (future floating place of Natalie Wood) when three young girls swam over naked and climbed aboard without even an invitation. Niven remarked years later, “Young ladies just chased him, he never had to arrange for anything; women everywhere were available to him.”<br />
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On January of 1943, Errol Flynn stood trial for the rape of the two minors. If convicted he could go to San Quentin for 30 years. His drinking increased over the strain. “The Flynn Trial” focused national attention on Hollywood's sexual morals, which both titillated and shocked many Americans at the time. The trial also placed the phrase "In… like Flynn" into the American vernacular; a highly sexualized slang that had duality in its use.<br />
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Peggy Satterlee, then 15, (on her modeling contact she stated she was 17) she and a <i><b>Life</b></i> magazine photographer boarded the <i><b>Sirocco </b></i>and she claimed to have had sex with Errol; months later, she filed a complaint with the LA District Attorney office.<br />
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In September 1942, Flynn met 16-year-old Betty Hansen at a party in the home of British businessman Fred McEvoy. Betty was enamored by Flynn's movie fame and fortune, but by dinnertime Hansen had vomited from too much drinking. The next day, Hansen told her sister that Flynn had taken her upstairs to clean her up, then seduced her. Peggy Satterlee filed a complaint with LA District Attorney office again who recalled a similar complaint. Before Flynn’s indictment, Satterlee's own father had approached Flynn with a demand for money stating … "I will lie to the police that his underage daughter had sexual relations with Flynn."<br />
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Trivia: In the 1990's the home where this meeting took place belonged to<br />
Our Lady of the Fucked Up Face, Joan Van Ark.<br />
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Flynn's attorney was the legendary Jerry Geisler. <i>"Get me Geisler!!"</i> was the call if someone famous was in trouble. Just ask Lana Turner. Geisler dug up the dirt on the teens: Satterlee had already had an abortion before she even met Errol. Betty Hansen had been convicted in California of “crimes against nature”, a 1940’s legalese term for blowies or butt sex. The girls were anything but virgins, but that was beside the point. They were underage and Errol was so terrified of a conviction he had a plane on stand-by at Burbank airport to whisk him out of the country if he was convicted.<br />
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In Flynn style, with everything on the line during the highly publicized trial, he had the smuggled seventeen-year-old, Linda Christian to Mulholland Farm. <br />
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She waited for his return from the courthouse every night. As a side note, in his autobiography Flynn states that immediately after Linda Christian's screen test, he offered to pay for her to have a couple of crooked teeth fixed. When he got a whopping bill, he discovered that she had taken the opportunity to undergo major cosmetic dentistry. A few years later, when he met her again, he said,<br />
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<i>"Smile, baby – I want to see those choppers: they took their first bite out of me!" </i><br />
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<i>Linda Christian</i><br />
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In the end, Flynn was acquitted, but his career had taken a bad hit. In Flynn panache, he could not care less what people thought. He told friends it was a set-up. He never had sex with either of the girls. Errol had many faults, but he was not a liar. His take on the whole matter was;<i> “If anyone does not believe me, then they can just go to Hell!”</i> Flynn spent his court recess time flirting with 18-year-old woman, Nora Eddington. Nora worked at the snack bar inside the LA courthouse where the case was being tried, and whose father was Captain Jack Eddington of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. A romance blossomed, and Flynn married her in Mexico in August of 1943 when Flynn was 34.<br />
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<i>"My problem wasn't getting women into my life - it was getting them out of it."</i><br />
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The marriage gave Flynn the domestic happiness at Mulholland Farm he had never experienced. By all accounts daughters Deirdre, born 1945, and Rory, born 1947 have remarked that their father was wonderful and attentive in the ten-year marriage to Nora and involved his family in his travels, endeavors and sailing.<br />
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In 1946, Errol acquired <b><i>Zaca,</i></b> a schooner-rigged yacht that was truly another one of the loves of his life. He sailed her for thousands of miles from the Pacific to his favorite place on earth, the Caribbean and to… Jamaica. Flynn docked his boat into Kingston before hopping on the back of a motorcycle and reaching Port Antonio. He fell in love with the place, famously declaring it <i>"More beautiful than any woman I have ever known".</i> He would buy up as much of the land he could afford covering the costs by taking any movie roles offered. Hollywood was now “Flynn’s Bank” and not a important part of his life.<br />
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Sadly, this did not give Errol Flynn the happiness and harmony he longed for. Booze was the ever-present part his life since his formative teen years, that gave way to pain pills after an injury in 1946 and ultimately, morphine. How early Flynn’s drug use began is not really known. We do know that his wife Nora left him because of it. The couple divorced in 1949. Nora said of Flynn in her biography years later. <i>“He wasn't afraid of anything, particularly if there was a challenge to it.”</i><br />
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Flynn's last marriage was in 1950 to actress Patrice Wymore. That same year he was released from his contract by Jack Warner as were many still under contact from Hollywood’s Golden Age. , (Warner’s kept him around the longest of their contract stars, a fact that showed his star power.)<br />
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For the first time Flynn decided to produce and star in a movie, <i><b>The Story of William Tell </b></i>(1953). He sunk all of his personal fortune ($500,000) in making this film, which he envisioned as his comeback. Filmed in Rome and the Italian Alps, Flynn's production partners defaulted. The production halted and Flynn was left stranded in Rome facing financial ruin. Flynn had built the alpine set for the movie in Courmayeur, Italy and ran out of money. He contacted his business manager Al Blum to wire him funds to keep production going. The last time they had contact, Blum informed Flynn that he <i>“owes the IRS only $18,000, you have nothing to worry about”</i> But Blum had not paid Flynn’s taxes for years – deferring them. In the end, Flynn owed the IRS $840,000. Blum had fleeced Errol out of his fortune and not paid his taxes, this was done to finance his own sordid gambling habit. Blum, sick with cancer died shortly after. On his deathbed, his final farewell to his famous client was <i>“Tell, Errol, I am sorry”</i>. Errol Flynn declared he was bankrupt in Rome in 1952.<br />
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To make matters worse, Flynn was making $1,500 a month alimony payments for over 15 years to his former wife, Lili Damita, and then fell behind. Damita took him to court and Flynn lost his beloved Mulholland Farm and other investments. He was able to hold on to his beloved <i><b>Zaca</b></i> and his Jamaican plantation. In 1955, Flynn and his wife Patrice appeared in film version of <i><b>King's Rhapsody </b></i>filmed and produced in England and Spain. The reviews were abysmal. They returned to Flynn’s 2,000-acre coconut plantation and cattle ranch in Port Antonio, Jamaica, to raise their daughter Arnella, born in 1953. They spent the next six years building a working farm and ranch. In need of money, Flynn did perform in European produced films, though most were B-grade endeavors with poor production value. In 1956, United Artist asked Flynn to return to Hollywood. He made three films, <i><b>Istanbul, The Big Boodle,</b></i> and Hemingway’s <i><b>The Sun Also Rises</b></i> all released in 1957. Ernest Hemingway himself saw <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Sun Also Rises. </i>He walked out after 25 minutes.<br />
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<i>“It looked pretty silly. The bulls were mighty small for a start, and it looked like they had big horns on them for the day. I guess the best thing about the film was Errol Flynn”</i><br />
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Flynn's performance was highly acclaimed and there was talk of an Oscar nomination, but that would not happen. He became typecast again, playing alcoholics in his next two films. Ironically he played John Barrymore, his idol and friend, in <i><b>Too Much, Too Soon </b></i>(1958). <br />
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After John Barrymore died on May 29, 1942, director Raoul Walsh "borrowed" Barrymore's stone-cold corpse from the mortuary and placed the dead star in Flynn’s armchair up at Mulholland Farm. When Flynn returned home, he saw his dead friend and flipped out, running off into the night. A great story, but not true. The tale was even repeated as fact by Flynn himself. Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?<br />
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In his autobiography <i><b>My Wicked, Wicked Ways,</b></i> Flynn explained that when in Rome in 1952, he was facing financial ruin and final-stage alcoholism. He described a visit to a Swiss physician who informed him his liver had stopped functioning. Flynn responded. <i>“What happens now?”</i> The Doctor, responded, <i>“You die, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you die. I am sorry”</i> Flynn describes going to the bathroom and staring at his reflection, “My eyes looked like as if they had been dipped is mustard. You’re yellow all right,” I muttered. Then a quite irrelevant, rather ludicrous thought came into my mind: <i>“Goddamit, I refuse to predecease Jack Warner!”</i> Is that story true? I doubt it, Earl Conrad had ghost written part of Errol’s biography published after his death. Are most the stories true? No doubt they are, though one might careful and take some pause when reading this “Autobiography”<br />
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By 1958, Flynn decided to stay in Hollywood. His marriage to Patrice was failing back in Jamaica and he was off again to seek his next fortune. His next and final residence was at the newly built (and future death location of Janis Joplin) <b>Landmark Motor Hotel</b> in Hollywood; Flynn had rented a one-bedroom suite next to the pool.<br />
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Beverly Elaine Aadland (aka Woodsey, aka Little Wood Nymph aka S.C.) was the daughter of a dancer and an industrial chemist,. They met when Flynn was 48-years-old. They were lovers from the first night they met. She became his "Darling Woodsie" – so called because she reminded him of a wood nymph. Friends of Errol comment, that this was <i>“happiest time in his life” Aadland would say years later that Flynn “Was planning to start a new life as far from Hollywood as possible: He would marry his "Wood Nymph" in their newly built house in Jamaica, they would have a baby, raise cattle and he would write books."</i><br />
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The “large pile” of illegal gold bars would finance all this that Aadland says she saw stashed in the hull of his yacht<i><b> Zaca</b></i>, and which disappeared after his death. During their two-year odyssey that included time in Hollywood, Africa, Paris, London, Majorca, Cuba, Italy, and Jamaica, they made love, drank a lot, got arrested, worked on his autobiography and did "hours of talking" and made the comical movie, <b><i>Cuban Rebel Girls</i></b> (1959). Errol saw hope in the Cuban Revolution, Flynn saw hope in many places.<br />
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He flew to New York to get a reverse vasectomy, <i>"He knew I wanted a baby,</i>” Aadland stated years later. Shortly afterward, at Aadland's 17th birthday party, he announced their engagement; but Flynn was short on money – again.<br />
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He decided to lease the <i><b>Zaca</b></i> for cash. He and Beverly flew to Vancouver, BC to finalize the lease agreement. According to legend, the 118-foot <i><b>Zaca</b></i> had been fitted with the rigging from Canada’s famed <i><b>Bluenose</b></i>.<br />
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Flynn encountered a press crowd when he arrived at Vancouver Airport. A female reporter asked him why he constantly seemed to be surrounded by underage girls? Flynn shot back<br />
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Here is Flynn’s last interview while in Canada that week.<br />
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The yacht was to be leased by businessman George Caldough. Both Errol and Beverly spent several happy days staying at Caldough’s home, discussing <i><b>Zaca,</b></i> but soon it was time to get back to LA.<br />
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Thanks to Findadeath friend Blair Stone we learn that the Caldough home is no longer. Though it's a nice house built on the land, the last night Errol slept was in the home located where these photographs were taken. There were still bits of the original house. Crumbs.<br />
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Dr. Gould gave Flynn injections to relieve the pain. Phone calls were made and astonishingly, not long after their arrival, people materialized and a party began. Flynn stood against a wall to relieve the pain in his back and regaled the group with stories of the Hollywood figures he had known. He took questions from the guests and entertained them as Flynn could - always a superb storyteller. After performing impersonations of Bette Davis and W.C. Fields, he announced he was tired and going to lie down for an hour, then would take everyone out for dinner, <i>“I shall return!”</i> he said and retired to a bedroom and laid down on the floor to relive his leg and back pain.<br />
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This was not the case at all, Flynn was suffering myocardial infarction and unlike the movies he had played in, one does not just drop to the floor; this heart attack was slow and lethal.<br />
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After about 30 minutes Beverly went into the bedroom to check on him. She found him trembling, his face blue. She could hardly hear his heart. He was trying to speak, however words could not be formed. Her screams brought the doctor . . . but it was already too late. Al Gowan, a member of the Inhalator Squad a 1950’s Canadian word for EMT said<br />
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The death certificate, dated October 23, 1959 indicated myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis and diverticulosis of the colon as the causes of death.<br />
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The coroner had counted Flynn as one of his cinematic heroes, but the man carried in on a stretcher <i>“was sallow and a puffy and he looked an awful lot older than his fifty years,”</i> he would write.<br />
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Flynn’s heart had definitely stopped, but all his other organs were so shot that the coroner ultimately ruled his death as due to “natural causes.”<br />
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Glitch Dept: The National Post, "The most notably damaged organ as it turns out, was Flynn’s penis. His dick was beset by a collection of enormous genital warts. The warts were so large, in fact, that the city’s chief pathologist Tom Harmon, removed them and preserved the specimens in formaldehyde with an eye of having them serve as a teaching aid to future generations of British Columbia doctors. To this day, a piece of Flynn might still have resided in Canada if the bizarre act had not been caught by Mr. McDonald — who immediately scotch-taped the warts back into place."<br />
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“How big was Errol Flynn’s penis?” wrote Mr. McDonald in 1985. <i>“Errol Flynn was no larger and no smaller in his stature, his jewels, his endowment, than any other man.”</i> No doubt, Errol Flynn would love this story.<br />
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Although Errol's own wish was to be buried in Jamaica <i>"under a gnarled oak tree in front of the house,"</i> his legally-wedded-though-estranged-for-two years wife, Patrice Wymore, wanted him buried in LA (a place he had come to despise). His good friend Bud Abbott of <b><i>Abbott and Costello </i></b>fame was given the burden of making the arrangements. In true Flynn fashion, it was a mess. Abbott ordered dozens of roses for the funeral, but didn’t specify the color. The florist sent ALL yellow roses, not befitting Flynn’s machismo. Beverly Aadland did not attend. Jack Warner and some others did. It was very private and very quick.<br />
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Trivia: Actress sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland had famously feuded for over 40 years. One source of this feud was apparently, Errol.<br />
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Trivia: Ricky Nelson owned the Flynn's Mulholland Farms when he died in a plane crash. <br />
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This is a great account of this legendary Flynn/Nelson (HAUNTED) home.<br />
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The ruins located in Runyon Canyon, the popular Hollywood hiking trail, are not from the old Flynn estate. <br />
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However, part of Justin Timberlake's property is. Doesn't his hair suck?<br />
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More: Flynn trained with the great Ralph Faulkner at the legendary Falcon Studios on Hollywood Boulevard. Faulker taught Flynn and many others, swordsmanship.<br />
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Hollywood, determined to destroy all it's history, tore down Falcon Studios.<br />
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More: Another legend: Flynn is buried with six bottles of whiskey. Todd clarifies: Not true. Errol was not embalmed and since the fear of cholera very real, his casket was sealed closed. <br />
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He was injured during a rehearsal and did not get proper care. He died an agonizing year later.</div>
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The story is summarized in this Youtube video. It's so sad.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In October of 2015 I was invited to Galveston for the second year in a row, to speak at the Dash Beardsley Wake the Dead show. </span></h4>
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So I waddled over to Kathy and introduced myself and explained that we had met before. There was a polite "she was great." with no real joy. She was very kind and nice but clearly not interested in conversing. Fair enough, I thought.</div>
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She later made the rounds in the room to the different tables. She stopped at ours for a minute and asked what we did. She listened attentively as we described our tour and museum. She said she thought it was a great idea. I offered one of my brochures which she took back to her table.</div>
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Eyes bulging, I scurried over to her table and indeed saw two styles of photos. When I questioned her, she told me that she always gets everyone's autographs when she works on something. I asked about Murphy and of course she only had nice things to say.</div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose story of multiple personality disorder had been told in the fictionalized best selling book by Flora Rheta Schreiber and inspired the Emmy-award winning 1976 two-night TV event starring Sally Field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">The TV-film had shown American audiences that their former "Gidget /Flying Nun" could really act - as well as proving that the exploration of multiple personalities (dissociative identity disorder) could make for creepy compelling drama. The film was laid out like a horror-mystery in which a savvy psychiatrist named Dr. Cornelia Wilbur learns that her patient Sybil Dorsett has developed separate personalities to cope with the sadistic childhood abuse dealt by a schizophrenic mother. Through therapeutic hypnosis Sybil's mother "Hattie" (chillingly played by actress Martine Bartlett) is revealed in flashbacks as inflicting her child with daily ritualistic abuse involving cold water enemas and sexual probing with kitchen utensils. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Nobody will know if Shirley Mason ever truly received that kind of abuse from her Mother or if it was fabricated by Dr. Cornelia Wilbur? There is a great deal of controversy regarding Shirley's case - but more on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley Mason was born January 25, 1923 and raised in Dodge City, MN - the only child of Walter Mason and Martha "Mattie" Atkinson. Her father was a carpenter/architect and the family were devout Seventh Day Adventists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">While the book paints mother Mattie as having clandestine lesbian orgies in bushes and defecating on lawns for kicks - the most that neighbors could muster about her in recent years was that Mattie was an odd bird: voyeuristic after dark and having a witchy screechy laugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">One factual childhood episode that caused Shirley trauma was used in the book. At age 7, Shirley was lured to the home office of Dr. Flores (in the book, he's "Dr Quinones") to supposedly play with his daughter, but instead was given a needed tonsillectomy. The child was forced onto a table, held down by assistants and the town pharmacist and given ether (via cloth held on her face). The terrified Shirley kicked and flailed under the "flashlights" and looming people ("The People! The People!") and awoke terrified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Critics of psychiatrist Dr. Wilbur believe that she heard fragments of Shirley's story and assumed she had also been sexually abused and blamed the mother, assumed by Wilbur to be a paranoid schizophrenic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Since the death of Shirley Mason, there have been NY Times articles, NPR stories, and books (SYBIL EXPOSED) claiming that remaining records show that Dr. Wilbur was not exploring the truth but rather planting the truth as she wanted it to be. They claim that she was planting false memories (via sessions with Thorazine and sodium pentothal injections) on an eager-to-please, highly hypnotizable hysteric who had a deep crush on her doctor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">There is another reported story that tells of Shirley Mason seeing another shrink named Dr. Spiegel when Dr. Wilbur was out of town, and Shirley asked him if he "wanted her to switch to other personalities?" When he asked where that idea came from, Shirley claimed Dr. Wilbur wanted her to do that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley's fundamentalist sect in Minnesota had forbade reading fiction, and some theorize that the imaginative creative child was drawn to making up stories into adulthood. There are claims that Dr. Wilbur had an interest in multiple personalities and had suggested Shirley read up on the subject. Soon Shirley was revealing childlike "Peggy" (the name her mother called her, based on popular dolls of her childhood) and then later asked to be the subject of a book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Theories abound that Dr. Wilbur wanted the notoriety for a landmark discovery and had made a book deal with author Schreiber early on - and had to deliver the sensational goods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Fun fact: Joanne Woodward had won a 1957 Oscar for THE THREE FACES OF EVE , and later played Dr. Wilbur in the 1976 film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley later recanted her multiples in a letter to her doctor saying it was all a ruse for attention. This was dismissed by Dr. Wilbur (and included in the book/movie) as a manipulative ploy to avoid further treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Nobody will know the 100% truth since patient, doctor and author are dead - but we do know that in the 25 years after the book and TV-movie, diagnoses of MPD went from dozens to 40,000 in North America alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley Mason got a job teaching art at a college in Ohio. She later relocated to Lexington KY and began selling paintings from her home. Dr. Wilbur had relocated to that city as well. Shirley became more reclusive and depended on Dr. Wilbur for support. Shirley eventually nursed Wilbur in her final years with Parkinson's. Wilbur died in 1992 and left Shirley $25,000 and all SYBIL royalties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Shirley Mason spent her final years painting, gardening (she was vegetarian) and taking care of her cats. She remained devoted to her Seventh-Day Adventist faith which helped her through a battle with breast cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">In 1997, the cancer came back and Shirley told her home health aide friend Roberta Guy that she was declining further treatment. She began giving away books and paintings and left most of her estate to a TV minister. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">Her friend Roberta said at the end of her life Shirley was peaceful and not afraid of dying. On February 26, 1998 she called for her friend who lived 10-minutes away - but by the time Roberta pulled up to the house, Mason had died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ImprintMT-Shadow; font-size: 18px;">The Lexington KY home that she died in was sold a few years ago : these photos show the interiors and mailbox.</span></div>
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Dirk was a British stage and screen actor. He turned down the role of the lead male in <b>Gigi</b> and was considered for <b>Dr. Zhivago</b>. He never really reached "legendary status" in the States. He made a couple of big budget films in the US, but they didn't perform well so he stuck with his success in Britain.</div>
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In 1996 Bogarde had surgery to unblock his arteries, after which he had a massive stroke. He was paralyzed on one side of his body. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. His speech was also severely affected. Can you imagine? Him not being able to talk? What? How will they hear my interesting stories?!</div>
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Dame Barbara Cartland</div>
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One of the most wonderful things I learned about while living in Britain, is Princess Diana's step-grandmother, Barbara Cartland.</div>
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Diana's father was married to the most amazing looking Raine Spencer. Diana referred to her as "ghastly" or "Acid Raine".</div>
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Barbara was a romance novelist. As a child, Lady Diana Spencer considered those books among her favorites.</div>
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May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961</div>
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If you were to write down a list of his lovers on a sheet of looseleaf paper, the list would be over a foot schlong, such the man-slut he was.</div>
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In 1960 Cooper had surgery for prostate cancer and colon cancer. Docs thought the treatment was a success but shortly afterward the cancer returned to his lungs and bones. He refused aggressive treatment.</div>
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The Academy awarded him with an honorary Oscar in 1961, but he was too ill to show up. Jimmy Stewart accepted it and gave an emotional speech, clueing in the world that something was wrong with Gary. The next day, news broke that The Coop had the big C.</div>
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February 12, 1951 - August 9, 1969</div>
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He worked at Jonas Miller Stereo on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills.</div>
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At around 11:45 that Friday night, Parent drove to the house on Cielo Drive to William Garretson and "sell him a clock-radio."</div>
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About 45 minutes after he arrived, Parent got in his car and pulled up to the gate of the property in an attempt to leave. At that very moment, Tex Watson hopped over the fence and ordered Parent to "HALT!"</div>
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Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-25767253700097265842015-05-11T08:35:00.000-07:002015-05-11T08:36:41.514-07:00Sid Caesar's Death House is for sale<br />
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September 8, 1933 - February 12, 2014</div>
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To younger audiences, he was Coach Calhoun in the film Grease.</div>
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The athletic field at Venice High School used in the film Grease.</div>
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The home was built in 1962 and could be yours for $4.25m. </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Dietrich was one of the most fascinating actresses of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century. She turned into one of the most curious recluses. Classic film fans will probably want to string me up when I say that I constantly confuse Dietrich with Garbo. Like Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson and DeNiro/Pacino. I can't explain it. I can't defend it. It just is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Since 1978 Dietrich occupied a two-room apartment overlooking a courtyard garden, at 12 Avenue Montaigne in Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">She was bedridden for her final five years and would spend hours chatting with her friends across the world on two telephones (spending up to $7,500 a month). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(zzzzzz.... ring ring! ring ring! 'wha... oh God, please don't let it be her.')</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Mike Pare clarifies, "She was not bedridden in the classic sense, she just chose not to get up and around. She had had a bad fall, and did have arthritis, but she was in otherwise excellent health, she just preferred to be a martyr. She was not hard up for money, she maintained her NYC apartment until she died though she had not seen it in years. She was on occasion cash poor. One emerald piece she left her daughter was sold for over $900,000.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I used to sleep on her couch in her flat because she would wake at 4am calling, "Bernard, Bernard'," said Mr. Hall. "I'd cook her breakfast because I knew that was what she needed. But at 6am the scotch would be going down. I didn't know what to do. I gave it to her. It was impossible saying no. Anyway, she had two bottles under the bed. She was brilliant until 10am, then zonk, she'd collapse."</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I loved her more than anything but she was totally impossible to live with."</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jayne Osborne prompted this memory of a drunken Judy Garland telling a hilarious story about Marlene.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One report claimed that she drank to forget the thrombosis her her once-glamorous legs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Only on extremely rare occasions would she be seen leaving the door of her Paris apartment building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">She had an aversion to being seen as she aged, tho one resourceful photographer did capture pix of her thru a window and on her balcony shortly before she died that were printed in European papers. Here is is, THANK YOU Richard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This is the last verified photograph of Marlene, taken a few months before her death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">More than 1,5</span>00 people mourned at her funeral at the Madeleine Church in Paris. Her closed coffin, draped in the French flag and adorned with a simple bouquet of white wildflowers, rested beneath the altar. Three medals, including France's Legion of Honor, were displayed at the foot of the coffin, military style, for a ceremony symbolizing the sense of duty Dietrich embodied in her career as an actress, and in her personal fight against Nazism. Her daughter placed a wooden crucifix, a St. Christopher's medal and a locket enclosing photos of Dietrich's grandsons in the coffin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Findadeath.com friend Harald sends this: As I have heard and read from many different sources, Dietrich (who had a hate-love relationship with Germany) wanted to have her last resting place in Berlin, because she wanted to be buried close to her mother, who is buried in a little Berlin cemetery, (Friedhof III, Berlin-Friedenau). It could be that Marlene finally made peace with Germany (she even came to Germany for a tour in the early 1960s). But maybe bringing her to Berlin could as well been a late revenge of her daughter, Maria Riva, who always said that Marlene was a dominant tyrant. And now Maria had the last word ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently Marlene could not walk, and when she did the title song, was put on a platform and wheeled across to the piano!!..... it is a very difficult film to find, but I do recall that moment. A true story I believe. The actors name was John Hargreaves (deceased).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">July 2003 My pal Harry Martin sends us this: We were on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera on the Princess Cruise Line ship the Sea Princess in February 2002. One of the features of the ship was a display of articles from the Marlene Dietrich estate that Princess purchased. I recall they had one gray dress (teeny waistline), some telegrams, a cigarette case and a makeup travel case. It was too cool. But sorry to say, though, most folks never stopped to see it because they were on the way to the theater or because on many days, you had to move the stupid art auction prints out of the way. But you know me, I just moved the dumb pictures so I could see the whole exhibit. So if any Find a Death fans are ever on the Sea Princess, be sure and look up the exhibit.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It seemed Dietrich was short of cash towards the end of her life In 1987 she sold off some of her cigarette cases and compacts for $81,500. Either that or she wanted a good laugh when she was cleaning out a junk drawer so she called an auction house.</span></div>
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December 20, 1905 - May 5, 1968</div>
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Masturbation will kill you. Ask Albert. He was an actor best known for his role as <i><b>Dr. Cyclops,</b></i> but was also in <b><i>East of Eden</i></b> and <i><b>The Wild Bunch</b></i>. He was also a former California Legislator. He had a sixteen-year-old son who killed himself in 1967.</div>
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His long-time fiancé Geraldine Saunders last saw Albert on May 2<sup>nd </sup>when they attended the opening of <b><i>The Latent Heterosexual</i></b>, at the Hollywood Huntington Hartford. At the time she said, "We were to have gone again on Friday, but my numerous phone calls to him that evening went unanswered." She also claimed that they were to be married within the next month.</div>
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A few years back we were making the documentary Dearly Departed Vol. 1. Dekker was one of the featured stories. Director Mike Dorsey lived in the building, but in a different apartment. Since they are all the same, we were going to shoot it in his place. In an "oh, what the hell" moment, I thought... Well, we're here. Why don't we ask the people who live in Dekker's actual place?</div>
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<span style="color: black;">He "was kneeling nude in the bathtub. A noose was around his neck but not tight enough to have strangled him. A scarf was tied over his eyes and a horse’s bit was in his mouth, fashioned from a rubber ball and metal wire, the bit had chain "reins" that were tightly tied beneath his head. Two leather straps were stretched between the leather belts that girded his neck and chest. A third belt, around his waist, was tied with a rope that stretched to his ankles, where it had been tied in some kind of timber hitch. The end of the rope, which continued up his side, wrapped around his wrist several times and was held in Dekker’s hand. Handcuffs clamped both wrists with a key attached. Written in red lipstick on his right buttock was the word, "whip." Sunrays had also been drawn around his nipples. "Make me suck," was written on his throat, and "slave," and "cocksucker," on his chest. On his stomach was drawn a vagina. He had apparently been dead for several days. </span></div>
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Some people say it was a robbery gone wrong, because a good deal of cash and electronic equipment was missing from his apartment. I think someone <i>may</i> have ripped him off, but it sounds more like Albert loved doing the dirty squirty thing on his own. He was the great granddaddy of all autoerotic asphyxiators. Problem is, he didn't even complete the job. The <span style="color: black;">proverbial <b><i>Die Trying</i></b>, his death was ruled accidental.</span></div>
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Findadeath pal Jaymuss has a pal that wrote celebrities for autographs in the 60's. This is one he got from our pal Albert. I hope he washed his hands first.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Harry Doll</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">March 12, 1899 - May 4, 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Dummkopf! What have you on your shoulders for heads? Swiss cheese?"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">When I was a child, watching the Munchkins in <b><i>The Wizard of Oz</i></b> worried and fascinated me. The fact that they were given odd little outfits to wear that accentuated their size gave us permission to stare at them. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">When I first saw the film</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><i><b>Freaks</b></i><span style="font-size: medium;">, I fell in love with those featured in that film as well.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, it was okay to stare.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I loved that I got in on the tail end of real Freak Shows while I was growing up, actually being able to experience one. I know it's not politically correct, but I miss them. I have absolutely no problem with people taking what others would consider a "disability" and using it to their advantage. Of course, back in the Freak Show heyday, there were some very dark and unhappy stories. That is not one of them.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Though born in Germany, they spent most of their lives living in Sarasota, Florida. Sarasota is only 40 miles south of Gibsonton, the retirement place of many circus performers. It seems that "<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/249" target="_blank">Gibtown" </a>has all but dried up - which is truly a loss. One of my dream locations that I will visit at some point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Munchkins finally received recognition in this world because of a man named Stephen Cox. Long before the internet, and information was available at our fingertips, Steve documented every single Munchkin for his book - <i>The Munchkins Remember</i>, later republished <i>The Munchkins of Oz</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A fascinating "Whatever happened to..." book that I loved and recommend. I am proud to call Steve a friend, and Steve helped by providing original photographs for this story.</span></div>
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As of this writing, May 4, 2015, there is only one adult Munchkin alive. His name is Jerry Maren. He presented Dorothy with a lollipop in the film, and also recently visited Dearly Departed Tours.</div>
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Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-45229422582223218622015-05-01T09:02:00.001-07:002015-05-01T09:02:28.133-07:00Death Hag Sticker of the Day - The Salton Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the desert outside of Palm Springs is the Salton Sea. A bizarre accident happened in the early 1900's when the Colorado River broke and formed this massive body of water in the desert. </div>
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<br />Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-31744000507090599382015-04-29T08:04:00.000-07:002015-04-29T08:09:07.707-07:00Grandma's House - 19624 Moross, Detroit, MI 48224<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-71006681844572821732015-04-29T07:49:00.004-07:002015-04-29T07:49:50.773-07:00Death Hag Sticker of the Day GOOBLE GOBBLE! It's Schlitzie!<div style="text-align: center;">
Schlitzie the beloved pinhead from FREAKS. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">To hear the wonderful, heartwarming and heartbreaking story of Schlitzie's life, <a href="http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/s/shlitze/shlitze.htm">see Findadeath</a>.</span></div>
Dearly Departedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986744150982144033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686152431076090142.post-12759718086950459872015-04-24T08:46:00.001-07:002015-04-24T08:46:20.675-07:00Death Hag Sticker of the Day - Key West - End of the Road!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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