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Dirk Standen

Call him…Johnny Comeback

In 1994, the novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne, writing in The New York Review of Books , recalled a conversation with Sam Peckinpah, the hard-living director of The Getaway and The Wild Bunch . “Peckinpah once told me that the only Hollywood story worth making was one he called ‘The Third Man Through the Read More

The Happy Looker

“Yo, George! Nice tan. You’re blacker than me!”

George Hamilton was enjoying a leisurely stroll along West 125th Street when the remark, lobbed by a beefy man in a security guard’s uniform, stopped the actor in his tracks. Shoulders back, head slightly cocked, Mr. Hamilton unleashed a dazzling display of tooth enamel that underscored the Read More