AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION to THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST manuscript
THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST is a manuscript to be published By BearManor Media. There are 66 chapters blogged on Zimbio. Also at :bill-dakota.blogspot.com The book is semi-autobiographical and leads into how he became a Hollywood Gossip writer... [more]
THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST is a manuscript to be published By BearManor Media. There are 66 chapters blogged on Zimbio. Also at :bill-dakota.blogspot.com
The book is semi-autobiographical and leads into how he became a Hollywood Gossip writer and how he started the controversial HOLLYWOOD STAR newspaper. There are a variety of subjects written about. Most are celebrity related.How could anyone get away with the truth/gossip of those days? Read and wonder!
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LIVING IN FLINT
Overview: It was he best city to grow up in during the fifties. Now it's listed as the number one dangerous city to live in.
Flint, Michigan where I was born
Overview: It really was once the best city to live in. Now it's the most dangerous in the states.
NATALIE WOOD'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH
Overview: NATALIE WOOD'S death could have been MANSLAUGHTER and the case is still open and never officially closed. The complete autopsy report is in the manuscript and a few important pages are shown here. Things just don't seem right with a zillion theories. I'll bet we hit the nail on the head. Read on...
THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST
Overview: MOVIE GOSSIP FOR ADULTS
FRANK SINATRA threatens Bill Dakota
Overview: A brief phone call but he got his point across. Columnist James Bacon said Frank was probably drunk when he phoned me. I taped Frank's phone call.
PRESTON BROWN
Overview: My friend died December 5th 2006. I miss him so bad. He was like a son to me.
BILL DAKOTA
Overview: The author of THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST in blogs. bill-dakota.blogspot.com 65 chapters
GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATER
Overview: I stayed in the theater to watch the janitors clean up. And then the manager, Ralph Hathaway and his assistant, Alex, came from backstage. I guess they were "taking care of business." There were three or four assistants at that time. I had a sexual dalliance with one named Rod. He was a pretty...
ARRIVING IN HOLLYWOOD
Overview: I had left my suitcase at the Greyhound bus station in a locker. I walked about two blocks before I was propositioned by a guy. Crazy, I thought. Can't go a few blocks without being approached. Hollywood was like a small Ohio town in those days. Before they built high rise buildings and...
JUDY GARLAND AT THE PALACE
Overview: We waited by the stage door entrance until we were able to see her. It was snowing like crazy but we waited and she signed her autograph.
