Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
Join us tomorrow from 11AM - 5PM at the Museum of Latin American Art for the Print Fair & Festival where Dead in Hollywood will be tabling. Weβll be premiering the latest three issues on NATALIE WOOD, DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, and an English and Spanish editions of LUPE VELEZ. (MOLAA - πΌπΈπΎ π°πππππππ π°ππ, π»πππ π±ππππ, π²π° πΏπΆπΎπΆπΈ)
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Three years ago on April 19th, Prince attended a show at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis to hear singer Lizz Wright. CBS Minnesota reports that whenever he went to the Dakota, he'd enter through a special door. βWe just kind of had a way that avoided him being seen,β said Lowell Pickett, the Dakotaβs owner. βHe would walk in the side door and walk up the stairs to a table that was kind of by itself, and weβd close a curtain next to it so it was kind of like a box seat.β Just about every month, Prince would show up at the club. On Thursday, my husband surprised me for my birthday with a trip to Paisley Park on the anniversary of Prince's death - Paisley Park was Prince's home and recording studio. Tomorrow we'll be touring the complex and attending "Paisley Park After Dark." On Sunday, the three year anniversary of his death, we'll be taking a VIP tour of the complex as well as celebrating his life afterward at the Dakota. Today we toured "Prince's Places" in and around Minneapolis. The following photos are of the night my husband surprised me and me standing in front of the Dakota Jazz Club. I have the fucking best husband in the world! Many more photos to come!
VOYAGE LA: Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
CASTROBURGER: I grew up near Dallas (where JFK was shot dead) and moved to LA (where RFK was shot dead). Iβve been fascinated with the dark side of America, particularly Hollywood since I was a teenage cinephile reading books like Kenneth Angerβs Hollywood Babylon and Vincent Bugliosiβs Helter Skelter. At 18, I moved to LA to study screenwriting. I didnβt know anyone and I was really far from home for the first time in my life. I spent a lot of my time reading and writing at cemeteries like Hollywood Forever and the Westwood Memorial Cemetery. I read books about Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate at their graves. What better place to read about your idols?
CLICK HERE to read Dead in Hollywoodβs interview at VOYAGE LA.
Check out my interview with @voyagelamag where I talk about everything from taking my friends on Hollywood death tours in my RAV4 to crying at Carrie Fisherβs grave! CLICK HERE to read the interview!
Pick up a copy of the zine DEAD IN HOLLYWOOD: Dorothy Dandridge Lives Here (Issue #10). Out now!
MarΓa Guadalupe Villalobos VΓ©lez, known as Lupe VΓ©lez, is a Mexican-born silent screen star. VΓ©lez begins her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. She is one of the first successful Latin American actresses in Hollywood. By the end of the decade, in the last years of American silent films, she is the lead in a number of films including "The Gaucho" (1927) and "Wolf Song" (1929). In the 40s, VΓ©lez's popularity peaks after appearing in the Mexican Spitfire films, a series created to capitalize on VΓ©lez's well-documented fiery personality. Nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media, VΓ©lez's personal life is as colorful as her onscreen persona. In the early morning hours of December 14, 1944, VΓ©lez retires to her bedroom, where she consumes 70 - yes, 70! - Seconal pills and a glass of brandy. Her death becomes the stuff of urban legends. Coming soon!
21 years ago today, pop god George Michael is arrested on suspicion of committing a "lewd act" in the restroom at the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills. He posts $500 bail and is released three hours after the arrest. What follows is the Crucifixion of George Michael.
Child star Bobby Driscoll was the voice for Disneyβs Peter Pan. Waltβs Golden Boy who was ultimately discarded. Iβm hard at work on Dead in Hollywood: Bobby Driscoll (Issue #11). Today is the anniversary of Driscollβs death.
"Mom! I've got something awful to tell you." -Bobby Driscoll in the 1949 film, "The Window." In 1969, two lost boys were playing in a deserted East Village tenement at 371 10th St. when they stumbled upon the dead body of a man stretched out on a cot, surrounded by beer bottles and religious pamphlets. He'd been there for days. There were no signs of foul play, and no drugs were found around him or in his system. The man hadn't been carrying identification on him when he died, so the police classified him as a "John Doe."The coroner determined that he had died on March 31, 1969. Authorities showed his picture around the East Village neighborhood for two weeks but were unsuccessful. Who was he and how had his life gone so wrong?
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Dorothy Dandridge
Karen Carpenter was born on this day in 1950.
I always find it so hard to say goodbye when I finish an issue of Dead in Hollywood. I canβt think of a better time to put the finishing touches on Dorothy Dandridgeβs story then on the eve of the Academy Awards. I plan on doing a slideshow on Dandridgeβs life in the near future. Stay tuned and turned on.
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Always Dorothy Dandridge.
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