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[mjp]

I'd like to suggest that perhaps Nadine was Nico of Velvet Underground fame.

Seems unlikely, doesn't it, since Nadine is describes as being a "high-powered executive."

I think the untangling of who is supposed to be who in Barfly isn't necessarily related to who is who in Hollywood. Mixing them together in this thread just confuses things further.

 

[roni]

it's a little bit off-topic here, but I didn't want to start a seperate thread for this question:

When in the novel 'Hollywood' Hank is looking for a house, he is offered one, where Charles Manson had 'operated'. I seem to remember that I've either read in a bio or seen in a documentary, that this had been confirmed to be a fact. But can't recall the source anymore.

Can someone point me, please?

 

[Ponder]

In a documentrary seems unlikely to me. Could be in a bio I haven't read but I have my doubts.
On the other hand, I take it as a fact what Buk describes in Hollywood.

 

[mjp]

I don't recall seeing anything about that, but I'd take that sort of information with a grain of salt. I lived in Topanga Canyon for 6 or 7 years, and it seemed like everyone up there "knew" a spot where the Manson family lived, but they were all different places. If everyone was right, they must lived in about 50 different houses.

Great place Topanga, but I can see why Bukowski didn't want to live there. It would have taken him two hours to drive to the nearest racetrack. It's a half hour drive just to get to Ventura blvd. in the valley or PCH on the coast. It's not close to the action like Laurel Canyon.

 

[Ponder]

Ah ok, another myth. It's a well written chapter in the novel, though. Scary images and Lila...

 

[roni]

Thanks guys.
Funny thing is, this house would have been a definite NO BUY anyway, even without that added juice. But in the book, the final decision is made just after Sarah mentions Mansion, as if this was the point.