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How Taylor Hicks Made it Possible For Adam Lambert to Win American Idol

How Taylor Hicks Made it Possible For Adam Lambert to Win American Idol Think about it. When Taylor Hicks vied for the crown on Season Five of Fox’s American Idol, contestants weren’t allowed to use instruments on stage, nonetheless be a less-than-the-norm “pop” idol. Rules were set in impenetrable stone, and structure was there to bring about a cookie cutter, easy-to-digest Top Ten charting singer. That’s about all that the Powers That Be were looking for. And when Taylor Hicks continued t… Continue

Added by Linda Alexander on May 15, 2009 at 12:21pm — No Comments

COVER - Reluctant Witness: Robert Taylor, Hollywood & Communism

Would like to show off the cover art for my new book, to be released this May, 2008, Reluctant Witness: Robert Taylor, Hollywood, & Communism.

Robert Taylor painting: Court Jones, done in the gouache style -- opaque watercolors http://www.… Continue

Added by Linda Alexander on March 13, 2008 at 10:48am — No Comments

Reluctant Witness: Robert Taylor, Hollywood, & Communism

I have a new book coming out in 2008, the title corresponding to the title of this post. A biography of Robert Taylor, breathtakingly handsome, intriguing, l

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Added by Linda Alexander on August 7, 2007 at 9:37pm — No Comments

If I Believed in Reincarnation: The Story of Susan Rice

copyright Linda Alexander, 2007. No use or reprint without author's permission

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Added by Linda Alexander on August 7, 2007 at 9:33pm — No Comments

The Dead Actress Spoke To Me

Charlotte Behrens really lived. She was an up-&-coming stage actress in the late 1800s when, at the age of 32, she died in rather mysterious circumstances. This story tells of how, in the year 2002, I came to "know" Charlotte Behrens, the anti-Victorian Victorian actress.

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Added by Linda Alexander on August 7, 2007 at 9:28pm — No Comments

To Speak Her Name: Margie Hart

Imagine -- a stripper becoming the wife of a Los Angeles City Councilman, a well-respected politician. Life is so very intriguing, and we can't invent the stories that have already been lived. copyright Linda Alexander, 2006. No use without permission of author.

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Added by Linda Alexander on August 7, 2007 at 9:27pm — No Comments