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thehorrorboy		#21	[-]
May 5 12 3:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: Lincoln Center has guards a-plenty. They socialize with each other and fool around and laugh all day long. Well, if I ever move to New York, I know where I'll apply for a job as a security guard!
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PhantomXCI		#22	[-]
May 5 12 4:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Although I've never read any of his books, I do remember all the controversy surrounding the Flynn biography. It seems that he got a lot of flack for every bio he ever wrote. What has always puzzled me is why he continued to be published by big, respectable firms. I mean, if his stuff really was libelous and litigious bullshite, why would reputable publishers continue to print him for decades?
TomWeaver999		#23	[-]
May 5 12 5:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I wish I could say which book it was; but one day, in a library, maybe at USC, I was browsing in some book and there was a long chapter "picking apart" one of Higham's biographies -- a Higham biography of some high-maintenance, ill-mannered (according to Higham) movie actress. The chapter writer "proved" -- to my satisfaction, anyway -- that Higham went to various research libraries and accessed original production paperwork about this actress' movies, and blamed her for every "incident" on their sets -- except that it was all bad behavior by other actors and actresses IN those movies. It was a wonderful 60 MINUTES-like point-by-point dissection of all the distortions and lies in creep Higham's book. I also wish I owned one of his books, so I could find it on my shelves and throw it away to celebrate his passing. Last Edited By: TomWeaver999 May 6 12 12:40 PM. Edited 1 times.
Elisabeth		#24	[-]
May 5 12 6:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I did it for you, Tom. I cremated his Katharine Hepburn "book" in my WEBCOR. People like Higham and his kind make ALL researchers look bad. Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
Michael Blake		#25	[-]
May 5 12 6:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The so-called author you speak of has lifted many things from various archives, not to mention photos from certain actresses. He's real good at conning people to loan him things and then never returns them or the pleading phone calls. Sadly, he's sold a lot of this stuff off, illegally, by the way. He's also known for attempting to sell forged autograph photos, even when the ink smeared! He's a pathological liar and, quite hponestly, I am surprised he's managed to stay one step ahead of the law or a bullet. Unfortuantely, since he's been hiding under a rock (perfect place for him) until recently, he's conning a whole new group of folks.
Michael Blake		#26	[-]
May 5 12 6:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't own any books ny Higham, but I will quote a line from THE SHOOTIST that I think truly fits this douche bag's passing: "What I'll do on your grave won't pass for flowers."
professor liebstrum		#27	[-]
May 5 12 7:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	He probably caused a lot of upset for the families and friends and fans of his "victims" but it sounds like he had a pretty shitty early life himself. What does that do to a person? I don't know, what does it all mean? "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
will		#28	[-]
May 5 12 7:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	PhantomXCI wrote: Although I've never read any of his books, I do remember all the controversy surrounding the Flynn biography. It seems that he got a lot of flack for every bio he ever wrote. What has always puzzled me is why he continued to be published by big, respectable firms. I mean, if his stuff really was libelous and litigious bullshite, why would reputable publishers continue to print him for decades? You can't libel the dead. He only wrote about the dead.
clore103051		#29	[-]
May 5 12 8:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	will wrote: You can't libel the dead. He only wrote about the dead. Maybe there will be some kind of ersatz justice and Boze Hadleigh or Darwin Porter will write a book about Higham.
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Stuart4th		#30	[-]
May 5 12 8:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Don't Lincoln Center, the Warner Bros. Archives at USC, and the other places have ANY security practices at all? For example, Harlan Ellison has been known to frisk, or pat-down, strangers leaving his home. Now that MIGHT be too much for an archive to do, but don't they take ANY security precautions at all? The USC Cinema-Television Library and the USC-Warner Bros. Archive shared the same reading room. When I was there at least, there was a fair amount of security, i.e., researchers had to sit at desks about five feet away from a librarian that, theoretically, was watching them the whole time. On the other hand, my boss at the archive, no longer there thank goodness, was incredibly lazy and once, rather than be bothered with hauling one researcher's boxes to the reading room, actually invited him into the archive itself, a publicly-undisclosed location, and left him unsupervised while she, in another room, played solitaire on her computer. Stuart Galbraith IV's CINEBLOGARAMA
acker j forestman		#31	[-]
May 5 12 11:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	will wrote: PhantomXCI wrote: Although I've never read any of his books, I do remember all the controversy surrounding the Flynn biography. It seems that he got a lot of flack for every bio he ever wrote. What has always puzzled me is why he continued to be published by big, respectable firms. I mean, if his stuff really was libelous and litigious bullshite, why would reputable publishers continue to print him for decades? You can't libel the dead. He only wrote about the dead. Higham did a biographical book on Orson Welles in 1970, published 15 years before Welles died. (Higham trashed Welles, of course).
Butcher Benton		#32	[-]
May 6 12 11:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I almost never speak ill of the dead, but this case is an exception. Charles Higham was a dreadful person whose passing is best summed up by that handy phrase, "good riddance". His Flynn Nazi bio was a malevolent, scandalous farce that did tremendous harm to a man's reputation and caused great pain to his family. Higham spawned a generation of like "biographers" whose trashy fantasies continue to denigrate their deceased subjects while making research more difficult for legitimate film scholars. I wish him and his ilk nothing but the worst.
FrozenGhost		#33	[-]
May 6 12 12:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	acker j forestman wrote: Higham did a biographical book on Orson Welles in 1970, published 15 years before Welles died. (Higham trashed Welles, of course). And John Huston didn't waste any time trashing Charles Higham. Shortly after the book was released, Welles was a guest on The Merv Griffin Show. Griffin surprised Welles with a video clip of Huston debunking the book which he claimed was spurious and accused Higham of being "a SOB." I wish I had taped it.
will		#34	[-]
May 6 12 12:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	acker j forestman wrote: will wrote: PhantomXCI wrote: Although I've never read any of his books, I do remember all the controversy surrounding the Flynn biography. It seems that he got a lot of flack for every bio he ever wrote. What has always puzzled me is why he continued to be published by big, respectable firms. I mean, if his stuff really was libelous and litigious bullshite, why would reputable publishers continue to print him for decades? You can't libel the dead. He only wrote about the dead. Higham did a biographical book on Orson Welles in 1970, published 15 years before Welles died. (Higham trashed Welles, of course). Citizen Kane was actually written by Welles' close friend, Joseph Goebbels.
khughes1963	I think I know which book it is	#35	[-]
Jan 20 13 5:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Denis Brian's "Fair Game." He took both Higham and Kitty Kelley to task. It's worth the read.
JohnMGM		#36	[-]
Jan 20 13 10:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My mother taught me that if I couldn't say something nice about someone to say nothing at all. Sincerely, John
Ted Newsom		#37	[-]
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