Bio:Cru dated Edie Parker before she married Kerouac, who was also his friend. Cru is famous as Remi Boncoeur inOn the Road,who inspired Kerouac’s seminal trans-American journey. Kerouac and Cru wrote an unproduced screenplay together in San Francisco. Aliases: Desolation Angels– Deni Bleu ...
O’Connor wrote the article in the July 2005 issue of Vanity Fair, “I’m the Guy They Called Deep Throat,” which revealed for the first time Felt’s identity as the anonymous Watergate source. He is the son of a former FBI intelligence agent, who later was the law partner of former...
1. In her memoir, Wonderful Tonight, Boyd wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful — and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions.”Watch the Beatles' 'Something...
He wrote eight novels and five short story collections.His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), was nominated for the National Book Award. Airships, his 1978 collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, the American Civil War, and the modern South, won the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction...
[for]Destroyer, he walked around with the whistle. He was contributing a lot of things. Nobody in Kiss wrote the “Detroit Rock City” solo, that was an Ezrin idea. That’s orchestrated. It’s brilliant, it’s like a trumpet, but nobody could play it better than those guys the way...
Over the course of the next 15 years Cassavetes wrote, directed and occasionally performed in such thought-provoking works as "Faces" (1968), "Husbands" (1970), "Minnie and Moskowitz" (1971), "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974), "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976), "Gloria" (...
“getting back to country,” Fram points out, a move that his fans appreciate. Rhett is also exploring larger issues about fatherhood, the idea of home, and even incarceration (he wrote “Death Row” after a sobering Christmastime visit to a men’s prison in Nashville). “He’s making ...
Gierke Robinson Co. Less than a year later her father wrote to her husband of his concerns about Gloria working too hard. Ha. She never took a sick day for the next forty-five years. She would have preferred to step directly from her office and friends there into heaven, but agreed to...
Harrison memorialized on 1969's “Something” and became Harrison's first A-side single with the Beatles after it was released on Abbey Road. It made it to No. 1. In her memoir, Wonderful Tonight, Boyd wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me....
"King of the Road" singer Roger Miller was a perennial Grammy winner (11 total), known for his big voice and sharp pen. He was also a big cigarette smoker who even wrote songs about the habit. He died in October 1992, not long after the discovery of a tumor. ...