Dig a Hole: Joseph Brooks, Oscar®-Winning "Life-Lighter" Gone Wrong
Joseph Brooks, commercial-jingle tunesmith, director, screenwriter, and composer of one of the more pestiferous pop tunes of this or any lifetime -- and accused casting-couch rapist -- is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 73. Brooks began his musical …
Dig a Hole: Leonard Kastle, The Honeymoon Killers one-hit wonder
One-shot writer, director Leonard Kastle, 82, died on Wednesday at his home in Westerlo, N.Y. He may have been a one-hit wonder, but oh what a hit it was! At the time of its limited release, the low-budget indie The …
Dig a Hole: Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood's former girlfriend and leading lady
Dolores Fuller, erstwhile galpal (both on and offscreen) of legendary cross-dressing, grade-Z "director" Ed Wood, died Monday after suffering from a long illness. She was 88. She first met her misguided guiding spirit while answering a casting call for a …