Film – Dean Goodman

“A Complete Unknown” – Yet Another Side of Bob Dylan Emerges in New Film

December 16, 2024December 17, 2024 Dean Bob Dylan, Complete Unknown, Elle Fanning, James Mangold, Joan Baez Suze Rotolo, Monica Barbaro, Timothee Chalamet, Woody Guthrie

How many roads must a man walk down before his life gets turned into a deluge of movies and TV series? In an ideal world, every simple twist of Bob Dylan’s momentous life would have yielded some sort of screen adaptation by now, rendering Star Wars a cottage industry by comparison.

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Billy Wilkerson: A forgotten Hollywood tyrant

September 16, 2024 Dean Billy Wilkerson, Bugsy Siegel, Hollywood Reporter, Howard Hughes, journalism, Variety

HOLLYWOOD GODFATHER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF BILLY WILKERSON
By W.R. Wilkerson III
Chicago Review Press; $15.99 on Kindle at Amazon.

Billy Wilkerson was the founder of the Hollywood Reporter, a movie trade publication based in Los Angeles.

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Celebrity graves in England

September 16, 2015December 11, 2020 Dean Amy Winehouse, Andy Gibb, Benjamin Disraeli, Benny Hill, Brian Epstein, Brian Jones, Bruce Reynolds, Cilla Black, Crippen, Eddie Cochran, Edith Cavell, Edward Heath, Edwin Starr, Eleanor Rigby, Emmeline Pankhurst, Freddie Mercury, George Best, Ivor Novello, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, Julia Lennon, Keith Moon, Lally Stott, Malcolm McLaren, Margaret Thatcher, Mick Ronson, Neil Aspinall, Peter Sellers, Robin Gibb, Ronnie Scott, Stu Sutcliffe

I’m a terrible person . . . to take on vacation.

You might want to lounge on the beach, or go shopping or eating. I just want to visit celebrity graves and miscellaneous death sites.

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Awards shows – please kill me!

August 25, 2013December 4, 2020 Dean awards shows, Emmys, Grammys, MTV, Oscars

Covering awards shows like the Grammys and Oscars made me grumpy. They allow rich and famous people to become even more rich and famous, and I was part of the problem.