by alan | Sep 25, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013
As a child, Norma Jeane Baker (Marilyn Monroe) lived in an orphanage and had 11 sets of foster parents, after her mother Gladys was institutionalized. She almost chose the screen name of Jean Adair before settling on Marilyn Monroe. Her agent Johnny Hyde reportedly...
by alan | Sep 25, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013
Even if dogs have been domesticated since approximately 33,000 years ago, their primal instincts remain active to this day. Some of these instincts include howling at the moon, pack dependency and even territory marking. Research shows that Dogs are the...
by alan | Sep 23, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013
When I was producing the rock opera in 1980, Hollywood nightclub owner, Bill Gazzarri, ran a month’s long radio advertising campaign announcing the search for singers to fill the role of Jim Morrison. In actual fact, we were looking for seven of them who...
by alan | Sep 22, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013
In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair for the magazine’s November issue, Mia Farrow suggests for the first time that there’s a possibility her son Ronan, 25, is Frank Sinatra’s boy, and not Woody Allen’s. Ronan was thought to be Farrow and...
by alan | Sep 22, 2013 | CLARION AUTUMN ISSUE 2013
In a superb act of defiance a man stands up to the withering forces of bureaucracy