Russ Columbo’s 100th bday
When I first moved to LA, I stayed in the very room where he was accidentally killed. I was hoping there’d be some “residual energy” but alas Russ is solidly dead. From my friend (god, do I love to brag that she is one of my best girlfriends - I can’t wait until we are dowagers together, with lorgnettes and fainting couches, if only she’d move out here sooner), Eve Golden:
Lenny Kaye wrote a great book about Columbo, “You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon.”
