Dead in Hollywood: A Natalie Wood Slideshow
Public Pool Gallery
November 29
8pm
Encino, CA
(e-mail for address: thehellfirepress@gmail.com)
Public Pool Gallery
November 29
8pm
Encino, CA
(e-mail for address: thehellfirepress@gmail.com)
I have some exciting news to announce. I will be presenting a unique slideshow on the life of Hollywood actress Natalie Wood on the anniversary of her death!
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Itβs never too early to start planning for Thanksgiving and with Natalie Woodβs latest movie, βBrainscanβ with Christopher Walken winding down, Wood has the long holiday weekend to unwind before heading into rehearsals for her next movie, βAnastasia.β Her secretary and good friend, Peggy Griffin, usually comes over on Thanksgiving around 6PM for dessert, but canβt this year due to a friendβs hospitalization. Peggy later says, βEverything about this whole sad time to me was so ironicβ¦ My whole Thanksgiving got kind of turned around.β Natalie and her husband, actor Robert Wagner, decide to spend the holiday weekend moored off the coast of Catalina Island. Woodβs co-star, Christopher Walken, joins themβ¦
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Swoon with me, will you?
Natalie Wood framed with a tile from Catalina Island.
It's November 2nd and 82 degrees in L.A. We drive over to Venice Beach and get stoned in the car before walking the canals to the beach. I've spent the last week or two consumed by all things Halloween and River Phoenix - River's deathiversary is October 31, 1993 - so it was nice to jump back into Natalie Wood's life story... and on the beach! I was not expecting to spend the first weekend in November high by the beach. I arrive at the chapter where Wood is planning her ill-fated Thanksgiving weekend on Catalina Island. This Thanksgiving, my husband and I are spending Wood's deathiversary on Catalina Island. Anyone up for a seance over Thanksgiving dinner?
Magician Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 of peritonitis, secondary to a ruptured appendix. He was 52. His last words before dying: "I'm tired of fighting." Witnesses to an incident in Houdini's dressing room at the Princess Theatre in Montreal speculated that a McGill University student, Jocelyn Whitehead, caused Houdini's death. Whitehead repeatedly struck Houdini's abdomen after asking the magician "if he believed in the miracles of the Bible" and "whether it was true that punches in the stomach did not hurt him." Whitehead then delivered "some very hammer-like blows below the belt" to Houdini who winced at each blow before stopping Whitehead in the midst of a punch. He had not expected Whitehead to strike him so suddenly and forcefully. Houdini performed that evening in great pain. He was unable to sleep and remained in constant agony for the next two days but did not seek medical help. When he finally saw a doctor, he was found to have a fever of 102 Β°F and acute appendicitis and was advised to have immediate surgery. He ignored the advice and decided to go on with the show.
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