RENE LYNCH CASTRO (Feb. 5, 1959 / December 16, 2004)
Today would’ve been my mom’s 60th birthday.
Fanzine Estrellitamia Interviews Dead in Hollywood
Check out an interview we did for the fanzine Estrellitamia. Their zines are a work of art!
Dead in Hollywood: Back Page
Coming March 30th!
Dead in Hollywood: Bobby Driscoll
On March 30, 1968, two boys playing in a deserted East Village tenement, found the dead body of former Disney child star, Bobby Driscoll. His body went unclaimed for 19 months.
Get the zine March 30th!
Jesus to a Child
The Crucifiction of George Michael coming soon.
George Michael & Andrew Ridgeley of Wham!
-Dorothy Dandridge
Whitney.
Watched the “Whitney” documentary this past week. Two weeks ago I was staying at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills down the hall from the room where Houston died. In one of the more painful sequences of the documentary, Houston is shown struggling through a dissonant rendition of her signature hit "I Will Always Love You" during what was intended to be a comeback tour, prompting fans to demand refunds at some performances.
Whitney Houston
Natalie Wood: Diamond Heart
Grab the zine Dead in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (Issue #8) HERE.
Natalie Wood.
Sky Bar
This edit is of a photo of Dorothy Dandridge taken at the popular Cleveland nightclub, Lindsay's Sky Bar, by photographer Frank Kuchirchuk. The photo is part of the Frank Kuchirchuk Collection of Jazz Photography at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, Ohio. Kuchirchuk donated his entire collection of jazz images of nearly 200 photographs, most of which are negatives that have never been seen by the public, and feature such artists as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Anita O'Day performing at the height of their careers. (Oberlin.edu)
Dead in Hollywood: Dorothy Dandridge (Issue #9) zine coming soon.
Pages: Dorothy Dandridge
𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝟺 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝟻 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚙𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍: 𝙳𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎. 𝙸 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝙻𝚎𝚗𝚊 𝙷𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚍𝚞𝚋𝚋𝚎𝚍 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚊 "𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚎." 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙰𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙰𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚢 𝙰𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍. (IG: deadinhollywoodzine)
Ken Schessler's This is Hollywood
Ken Schessler’s 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝙳𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 𝙸 𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 "𝚞𝚗𝚞𝚜𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚎" 𝚒𝚗 𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚎'𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚠-𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝.
Here Lies Sharon Tate
Holy Cross Cemetery (5835 W. Slauson Ave, Culver City, CA 90230)
Gotta Have It
My husband got me George Michael’s Faith Video Collection on VHS for Christmas 2016. The Christmas that George Michael died.
Certificate of Death: Dorothy Dandridge, 42
Hard at work on issue #10 of the zine Dead in Hollywood. Thanks for “Find a Death” for sharing this!
Fisher and Sons Funeral Home
The Auguste Marquis Residence in West Adams in Los Angeles was the setting for the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home in the HBO series “Six Feet Under.” On the show , the funeral home its supposedly located in North Hollywood. I lived in NoHo for four years and at the end of the street sat a funeral home. I can’t count how many times I walked my dog past throngs of hysterical mourners half expecting to see Nate or Rico comforting a widow or talking to their dad’s ghost. (Instagram: Deadinhollywoodzine)
Deathiversary: Black Dahlia (January 15, 1947)
Today marks the deathiversary of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia. 72 years ago, Short was found dead, severed in half, drained of her blood with a smile carved into her mouth. Her killer has never been found. The grisly murder case remains unsolved to this day. What are some of your theories? Any favorite books on the case?
