![]() ![]() Oh dear… we have another Scotty Bowers-like opus, “Secret Historian.” Valentino was supposedly in scenic Columbus, Ohio, where he was visited by Steward.įortunately for the ardent researcher, we have the precise date of the purported tryst, July 24, 1926, the day after Steward turned 17. Nonsense in “Secret Historian.” Doesn’t anybody do real research anymore? The next step is to find this 1989 interview with Carl Maves and in fairly short order we have: Here’s the link in case you care to check my work. So it’s off to Google Books, which has helpfully posted some preview pages, including this: Our next step is to examine the book - and if you think I’m spending a penny on this nonsense, you’re crazy. 23, 1926, and after years of being a fact-checking shark I can already smell blood in the water. Steward was born July 23, 1909, according to records on, which means that he was barely 17 when Valentino died Aug. That would be the claim that one of Steward’s “marquee conquests” (as established by an index card “stud file”) was Rudolph Valentino. The moment I read the review I thought “Oh, Scotty Bowers rides again!”įact-Checking “Full Service”: Part 1| Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5| Part 6| Part 7| Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16| Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20| Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26Īnd in less than an hour, one of the statements in the review can be tossed into the trash. The case in point is today’s review in the New York Times by Jennifer Senior of “Philip Sparrow Tells All,” edited by Jeremy Mulderig. I may have retired, but I haven’t lost any of my annoyance over b.s.
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