devodotcom: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Sunday, October 30, 2011

HOLLYWOOD MCABRE

WARNING

GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS AND NUDITY

NOT SUITABLE IF OFFENDED BY DISTASTEFUL IMAGES

HUMAN WRECKAGE

Exploitation Movie of the Twenties

ALMA RUBENS DEAD FROM DRUGS

BELA LUGOSI HOME AT LAST

NITA NALDI

FASHIONABLE STAR

NITA NALDI FASHIONABLE ADDICT

HOURS BEFORE HER DEATH

ELIZABETH SHORT THE "BLACK DAHLIA"

STILL LIFE IN THE GRASS

LUPE VELEZ THE "MEXICAN SPITFIRE"

“One of Hollywood’s livest wires, married Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller in 1933, and after their divorce, went through a small army of lovers. Her career hit the skids. In 1944, deeply in debt and pregnant by her most recent lover, Lupe staged her last night on earth with care. She ordered a huge mass of flowers, invited her girlfriends for a Last Supper, and then, at 3:00 A.M., alone in her bedroom chock-a-block with gardenias and tuberoses, gowned in silver lame Lupe penciled a farewell note to the father of her fetus. Swallowing seventy-five Seconal, she lay down on the bed, hands clasped in prayer for her final pose. The Seconal did not go down well and Lupe left behind a trail of vomit from the bed to the bathroom where she was later found having plunged headfirst into the toilet after slipping on the bathroom tiles.

CARMEN MIRANDA

"Kept her cocaine in a secret compartment in her platform shoes."

CARMEN MIRANDA CESAR ROMERO

NATURAL AIR-CONDITIONING

MARILYN MONROE

MORE NATURAL AIR-CONDITIONING

REMOVING MARILYN MONROE'S BODY

THE MONROE FURS

SEALING HER CRYPT

MARILYN'S POODLE, JEWEL, IS REMOVED BY THE POLICE

JAMES DEAN

“During production of Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean was host to a thriving colony of crabs. Director Nicholas Ray, amazed at his stars unconversance in such manners, dragged Dean off to a Burbank drugstore and treated him to a bottle of pungent crabocide. Dean had taken to hanging out at the Club, an east Hollywood leather bar. The predatory night crawler, who dug anonymous sex, had recently discovered the magic world of S and M. He had gotten into beating, boots, belts, and bondage scenes. Regulars at the Club tagged him with the single moniker: the Human Ashtray. When stoned, he would bare his chest and beg his masters to stub out their butts on it. After his fatal car crash, the coroner made note of the ‘” constellation of keratoid scars”’ on Jimmy’s torso.”