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Assaulting Adler
Steven Adler, the original drummer of Guns N’ Roses, tells of his experiences with the band in his autobiography My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, And Drugs, And Guns N’ Roses. The book also deals with Adler’s early introduction to rock and disco in the Los Angeles nightclubs run by the gangster Eddie Nash.
These nightclubs, including the Starwood and Odyssey, were frequented by gays as well as young teens preyed upon by many of these gays. Adler, for one, relates how he was raped.
Here, Jamie Dlux revisits this long-ago milieu. We are introduced to the varied players, nightclub staffers and musicians who partied until dawn at the Nash clubs.
If you’ve seen Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Boogie Nights, the character played by Alfred Molina was said to be inspired by Nash. Nash was at one time one of California’s largest cocaine dealers. In the film, he’s coked out of his mind, dancing around in a robe and Speedos to Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.”
And here, Alfred Molina gets cut short while enjoying a post-midnight boogie.
Bloodstains
How did so many actors from the TV series That ’70s Show end up under a cloud of dark suspicion?
Danny Masterson, who appeared eight years on the show, has now been sentenced to prison after being found guilty on a pair of rape charges.
Then, we have Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, who went to bat for Masterson. Meanwhile, Kutcher himself happened upon a murder scene the night of Feb. 21, 2001, and lied to the Los Angeles Police Department about what happened. Found dead was Ashley Lauren Ellerin, stabbed no fewer than 47 times. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
Apeeling To Whom?
Bill Gates has done a lot of confusing and even hideously criminal things. Now, he’s trying to become appealing. Well, sort of.
He has helped a new startup company called Apeel Sciences that coats fruits and vegetables with an artificial layer of chemicals to slow the rate at which the food turns rotten. So far, the results have been tested out on avocados, as well as blueberries and strawberries. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
Hog Lobby
Ham doesn’t come in a pretty pink color. That enticing shade is achieved by injecting the meat with a sodium nitrate solution. Here are excerpts from a 2016 French documentary that dives into the process, as well as explaining a few of the unwanted health and safety concerns. Jamie Dlux introduces and discusses the documentary.
Nukes Of Hazard
We’ve always called Hollywood the motion picture capital of the world? But the reality is that more films were produced inside a classified movie studio located on Lookout Mountain in Laurel Canyon, outside Los Angeles. Some 19,000 films came out of this studio, operated by the U.S. Air Force.
Did they generate fake nuclear blast tests? Here’s more from Jamie Dlux, drawing upon Dave McGowan’s landmark book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon.
Papua New Guinea Pigs
Jamie Dlux explores the work of physicist Carleton Gajdusek, a co-recipient of a Noble Prize in 1976, for his theories on the transmission of kuru. This is a rare, generally incurable and often fatal neurodegenerative disease first detected among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
Gajdusek linked kuru outbreaks in the 1950s and 1960s to the practice of funerary cannibalism, as he observed Fore people digesting the muscles and brains of deceased relatives. Subsequently, this cannibalism was outlawed and the disease promptly disappeared across Papua New Guinea.
Milder Disease
Jamie Dlux introduces a book called Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History. Drawing upon the book, he compares the vaccines developed for smallpox with the vaccines for Covid-19. Quite illuminating!
