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Staci Layne Wilson, writer of macabre fiction and the dark side of pop culture.
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I Found a Serial Killer on My Hard Drive (opens the original)
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While going through some of my old hard drives, I found a couple of 10-year-old news stories that I wrote about the Grim Sleeper serial killer. I’ll share them in a bit, but first, a little backstory.As a gun for hire, I need to adapt my innate style to suit my intended audience. When I started writing for a popular viral news website, I’d often get my pieces sent back to me with edits adding more exclamation points than a teenage girl’s diary, along with slang terms and curses replacing my prop
Twiggy: The Model Who Refused to Just Stand There & Look Pretty (opens the original)
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Actor-turned-filmmaker Sadie Frost has now made two trips into the archives of British fashion, first with Quant in 2021 and now with Twiggy, and the pattern is starting to look less like coincidence and more like a mission statement. This time her subject is Dame Lesley Lawson, the East End teenager who became Twiggy and, in the process, became one of the defining faces of the 1960s mod explosion—a movement that reshaped pop culture while it recalibrated what women’s fashion looked like.This po
The Rats Are Out of the Bag! (opens the original)
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I wrote a whole book about rats. The rats have now demanded a trailer. 🐀🎬No studio, no green light, no notes from a guy named Chad in Development. Watch this one, and trailers for my other books, on YouTube.com/@StaciLayneWilson-Films. Coming soon: Trailers for Nature’s Nightmares, and The Girl in Green.And now, the feature presentation: A Mischief of Rats is out today. (Cue the fanfa
If These Walls Could Rock (opens the original)
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Every rock ‘n’ roll city has a hotel that functions less like lodging and more like a confessional booth with room service. New York had the Chelsea. London had the Portobello. Los Angeles, generous soul that it is, has an entire hospitality district’s worth of them: the Chateau Marmont, where Jim Morrison decided gravity was optional and took a two-story tumble to prove it; the old Riot House on Sunset (now polished up and rebranded as the Andaz, though the ghosts of Led Zeppelin’s television-d
An Affair to Remember... and Two to Forget! (opens the original)
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It’s been a few days since the family and friends screening of my new documentary, “Hollywood Confidential: The Nancy Bacon Story.” It’s a very personal project, all about my mom’s wildly tumultuous life in Tinsel Town (and by extension, mine). There was so much to draw from, it was hard to pare it down to the essentials. I took a linear approach, and since it’s a visual medium, I decided to use the photographs and videos I had on hand. Yes, Mom knew Marilyn Monroe, Bobby Kennedy, and many more
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