‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 12
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. Bowers is about to describe his...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 13
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. On Page 2 (I warned you this would...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 14
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. On Page 2 (I warned you this would...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 15
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. Let’s recall that it was 1946 and...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 16
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. All those...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 17
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. Now this is interesting – at least...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 18
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. I have been examining what Scotty...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 20
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. I’m sure you’re thinking: “Part 20...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, MIA Edition
You might be wondering: Where’s the next post on Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service?” I have been busy with other tasks. I was asked to write a column for The Times and was happy to profile Ed Fuentes....
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 21
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. I am still on Bowers’ account of his...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 22
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. I’m examining the history of 1110...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 23
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. I’m examining the history of 1110...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 24
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. This is interesting. The city of...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 25 [Updated]
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. Several regular readers have asked...
View Article‘Full Service’: Fun With Fact-Checking, Part 26
In case you just tuned in, I’m doing a little fact-checking as I go through Scotty Bowers’ “Full Service.” This will be fairly tedious except to a research drudge. We have moved on, ever so slightly,...
View ArticleCaltech Students Hold Drag Beauty Contest
May 15, 1942: In a typical publicity stunt, someone from showman Earl Carroll’s operation offered to select Caltech’s beauty queen. Nobody told them that the campus was all-male (oooh girls can’t be...
View ArticleEve Golden: Queen of the Dead
A promotional card for Pennsylvania funeral home, listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $95. Queen of the Dead – dateline July 30, 2012 • Two reliably talented British performers have died: Angharad...
View ArticleEve Golden / Queen of the Dead: Bert Savoy
Photo: Bert Savoy via Confetta. Bert Savoy 1876 – 1923 Another book I will, frustratingly, never be able to write is about the Godfather of Camp, Bert Savoy—there is just not enough information on...
View ArticleMovieland Mystery Photo (Updated +++)
Here are some mystery folks in a mystery movie. Here are some more mystery folks from this mystery movie: Isn’t she a little old for him? Oh my. Let’s get a closer look. I think we can rule out “The...
View ArticleMillennial Moment: Ban on Blood Donations From Gay Men Urged
Jan. 18, 1983: Gay men are “known to be at increased risk of acquiring a mysterious and often fatal new disease that suppresses the body’s immune system” so the National Hemophilia Foundation is...
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