Has it really been 50 years since Jack Kerouac's acclaimed On the Road was published? Yes, it has!
And as this story demonstrates, fans of the renowned and influential writer are already celebrating this anniversary milestone in his life and career.
For those who want to know more about Kerouac's brief period of time spent in the Navy - as well as learning all about what the Navy's formerly classified medical files on the man himself revealed - check out my Celebrity Secrets book for the full details.
I still think that Big Sur is his best one though.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Elvis, the FBI and Wikipedia
The story behind some of the FBI files that appear in my Celebrity Secrets book on singer Elvis Presley can now be found at Wikipedia. As you'll see, the tale is a strange, convoluted and highly-intriguing one...
Here's the link.
Here's the link.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
Marilyn - Happy Late Birthday...
Had she not died in 1962 at the hands of herself, or the FBI, or the CIA, or the Mafia or...well, the list goes on, Marilyn Monroe would have been 81 last Friday. Unbelievable!
Monroe might very well have taken to the grave with her an untold number of official secrets told to her by the Kennedy brothers.
However, a number of interesting tales of a sexual, conspiratorial and dark nature can be found in the blond bombshell's FBI file, which is reproduced in Celebrity Secrets - including tales of a secret film showing Marilyn giving some lucky fellow a blow-job; official interest in her marriage to lefty playwright Arthur Miller; phone-taps; Mexican commies; wild parties; and much more.
Still, at least she burned out when she still looked good and didn't end up as a wrinkled old trout.
Monroe might very well have taken to the grave with her an untold number of official secrets told to her by the Kennedy brothers.
However, a number of interesting tales of a sexual, conspiratorial and dark nature can be found in the blond bombshell's FBI file, which is reproduced in Celebrity Secrets - including tales of a secret film showing Marilyn giving some lucky fellow a blow-job; official interest in her marriage to lefty playwright Arthur Miller; phone-taps; Mexican commies; wild parties; and much more.
Still, at least she burned out when she still looked good and didn't end up as a wrinkled old trout.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Lucille Ball, Commies and the FBI...
The blog Long Live Lucy has highlighted comments on the FBI's file on actress Lucille Ball that are reproduced in Celebrity Secrets. The FBI made some intriguing observations and comments in its records on Ball's links with Communism that - unlike with so many other Hollywood stars - were actually shown to be true, as the actress herself admitted.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Celebrity Secrets Podcast
Last month radio host and author Joshua P. Warren interviewed me extensively about my Celebrity Secrets book for his show Speaking of Strange.
The episode is now on-line: listen to it here.
We covered a wide range of the scandals, cover-ups, and sensational secrets of Hollywood's most famous figures.
The episode is now on-line: listen to it here.
We covered a wide range of the scandals, cover-ups, and sensational secrets of Hollywood's most famous figures.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Marilyn, UFOs and Roswell
In Celebrity Secrets, I included a chapter on the FBI’s surveillance files of dead Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
In that chapter I devoted a brief section to a discussion of a controversial document that - if genuine, of course - suggests that Monroe had secretly been told aspects of the Roswell, New Mexico "crashed UFO" story by the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert - as well as other official secrets, too, such as plans to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro.
More disturbingly, the alleged CIA document refers to a threat by Monroe to spill the beans on what she knew; something that never happened, of course, as a result of her still-controversial death.
And while I only included a chapter on this affair in Celebrity Secrets, researcher Don Burleson wrote a whole book about it; and he has just been interviewed about his research into the Monroe-UFO story.
The document falls into the gray area that most UFO data inhabits. Namely that it’s certainly intriguing, but actually proving anything is near impossible.
In that chapter I devoted a brief section to a discussion of a controversial document that - if genuine, of course - suggests that Monroe had secretly been told aspects of the Roswell, New Mexico "crashed UFO" story by the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert - as well as other official secrets, too, such as plans to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro.
More disturbingly, the alleged CIA document refers to a threat by Monroe to spill the beans on what she knew; something that never happened, of course, as a result of her still-controversial death.
And while I only included a chapter on this affair in Celebrity Secrets, researcher Don Burleson wrote a whole book about it; and he has just been interviewed about his research into the Monroe-UFO story.
The document falls into the gray area that most UFO data inhabits. Namely that it’s certainly intriguing, but actually proving anything is near impossible.
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