It was inevitable. My excesses would catch up with me sooner or later and I'd have to see a Doctor. I was a nervous wreck that morning, my performance just wasn't right. "Aches and pains?" I was asked. "Yep, got those." I answered. "Unusual discharge?" was the next question. "Yep, that too." I answered. "Come right in." was the suggestion. So I heade...
The gossip industry has been a part of Hollywood probably since the first movie camera was produced, maybe even before that for all I know. It's gone from newspaper columns to radio to TV and now the Internet. The famous names have all been there at one time or another and these days the name I saw most often was Veronica "Ronnie" Barrett, not that I read al...
Hollywood certainly had its share of secrets and secret keepers. Being one of them wasn't something I aspired to, I just lucked into it. Eventually though, someone talks and secrets are no more. Gossip columnists and bloggers can often control a town more than the politicians can, so their work was certainly made for the small screen. Lindsay Lohan had been...
I once said that there were certain events were time stood still for me, ones where I wished for no distractions for a day. One event I neglected to mention was the LA International Auto Show. It was like a supermarket of new cars. The timing of this was great for me. I was planning to upgrade my vehicle of choice and wanted something that was truly "me". An...
East Coast Image's contribution to the annual Vanity Fair music issue gave us a sudden jump in photo offers. I liked to think it was the photos I took of Carrie Underwood. In a way, I was right. The photo I took of her outside of Tootsie's at daybreak was published in all of Vanity Fair's editions around the world, became the advertising photo for her tour,...
For as long as I'd been working at Artists Unlimited, I never really learned much about the background of Chuck Tyler & Jeff Murphy. Though Chuck was the public face of the company (thanks to some well-chosen appearances on entertainment shows and more recently cable news outlets) behind the scenes, it was Jeff who did much of the work and was who I reported...
I saw him as soon as I stepped into the concourse. He was perfect Hollywood eye-candy; mid-twenties, tall, muscular, piercing blue eyes, craggy good looks, immaculately cut bottle-blond hair . . . the guy standing next to the stars in ten thousand medium close-ups. His costume was equally perfect; short-sleeved khaki shirt, matching shorts, aviator sunglasse...
Thanks for your patience everyone! ***** When someone (or me for that matter) would get overly anxious about something I'd tell them they were jumping to conclusions and that it was the only exercise they ever got. It was usually good for a laugh. Now it was Roger Sullivan's turn to use that line on me. The major shake-up at my old employer, Artists Unlimi...
All of the work we'd been doing was starting to pay off. After working in a cramped studio, Chris made a deal for a much larger facility. It would be in, of all places, a former bowling alley. It was 2 stories, built in the late 50's, and even had a private entrance. So we wouldn't have a repeat of the "Paris smuggling" that had been our ticket to the big ti...
Even though Chris' business was going great guns, he was still on the prowl for new assignments or contracts. Going out to hot clubs in LA was one method he used. I hated it, believe it or not. I was never a club maven so doing a nightly crawl of some hot spot was never my idea of fun. They were always too loud, too crowded, and loaded with drunks who always...