My name is Henry Shawn. I was once one of Hollywood's best movie directors. One of the most successful black men in the business. I don't look like your typical movie director. I stand six feet two inches tall, muscular and thick, with dark brown skin. I weigh exactly 230 pounds. I was once a football player, throughout high school and college. I went to fil...
Author's Note Thanks again for your patience everyone, between time constraints and writer's block I haven't been able to spend as much time on this as I'd like. Thanks again! ***** Hollywood funerals can be no different than any others. Sure you see family members there but in Hollywood, there are an equal number of friends and enemies along with a heal...
With his typical bravado, and at his own birthday party no less, Chuck Tyler made the grand announcement that Amy Adamson would be taking over management of the R&B trio Tigress as they began a comeback tour. And she wasn't kidding when she told me of wanting to bring back Tigress in a big way. Even if it was just a one-off show in Japan, she wanted to get t...
The Triple Threat Tour hit Las Vegas for 2 nights at the MGM Grand Arena. Chuck promised us a night off before we headed down to LA and San Diego for the final dates of the tour. The MGM seemed like a city unto itself. Even though it was our fourth time here, I still remembered that Chris had told me you could never see all of Vegas, it was always changing....
I was about to get thrown in the pool in front of everyone at the party. I was in my high heels, linen skirt and fitted white blouse. How this started was that my husband and I visited good friends of ours, Brad and Jenny in Florida. They had moved there 3 years ago and this was the first time we have been to their house. We were really looking forward to a...
Chapter 4 2011 At Abby's graduation ceremony in May we had a crowd of people gather for the event. Anna and I were there to be with our 'wife' to celebrate her accomplishment; plus her parents -- Don and Jean; one set of grandparents; my parents; and Anna's mother. Abby had finished her degree just after New Year's too late for the smaller winter ceremony....
"I was right!" It was all the cryptic message from Laura Austin said. The party at Gary Mackas' home had ended with a Police raid looking for illegal activities of the invited guests. It netted the arrest of, among others, former Artists Unlimited agent Scott Jackson on possession of illegal narcotics, on top of the resisting arrest charges (supposedly it...
The "spit take" has been a part of TV comedy for years. It involves one person making some shocking remark to another person while they're drinking, making them explosively spit out the drink. It always guarantees laughs. But in my case, I didn't spit out the drink, just swallowed it hard and coughed like crazy while trying to make sense of what Mike Schnei...
Jessica Parker was a local celebrity. She spent her mornings on "City Life", a local morning news show she co-hosted with James Rawlings. Women watched the show to learn about the Hollywood updates and men watched to learn about her. She knew that sixty percent of the viewers that tuned in every morning were there to see her in her tight miniskirts and low-c...
I felt my body drop from within and it seemed like the room was spinning. No words came from me only a hoarse whisper. "H-h-h-how?" was all I could say "Sometime before midnight he had an altercation with someone outside Hidden Treasure, I guess it's a dance club." "Marty..." I mumbled "Oh god..." "What?" "Marty O'Brien, was it Marty O'Brien?" Roger lo...