The River of Death by Hank Nuwer

The River of Death by Hank Nuwer

by | Sep 20, 2024 | Uncategorized

Hollywood came to Cordova in 1927. The filmmakers planned to make an action thriller. The movie ended up a tragedy for three men on set. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Trail of ‘98” was directed by Clarence Brown. The movie loosely was drawn from the novel about Alaska...
Never forget, always honor 9/11

Never forget, always honor 9/11

by | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized

Giving Face to Loss By Hank Nuwer “Stay the hell out of New York.” The message blipped onto my laptop screen, sent by a New York journalist acquaintance of mine who was covering the biggest story of his life. If words on a screen could be heard, these would have been...
Hollywood Knights by Hank Nuwer

Hollywood Knights by Hank Nuwer

by | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”                                        –The Eagles            In 1982, on writing business, I drove to Hollywood, and the old neighborhood north of Sunset where I once lived. A mutual...
A fatal act of brotherly love by Hank Nuwer

A fatal act of brotherly love by Hank Nuwer

by | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized

100 years ago this month: Raymond E. Morris, 18 (born Feb. 26, 1906), tried to intervene when a mob of hazers picked on his little brother, Benjamin, 14. “Bennie” resisted the then-“traditional” hair scalping of high school first-year-students....