Happy Birthday

George Baxt, June 11, 1923 - June 28, 2003.

Talented  acerbic, gentlemanly George Baxt introduced his perhaps best know character, Pharaoh Love, a  gay black police detective in 1966.  He was a prolific writer whom I always enjoyed reading whether the work was by, or about, him.  

He worked for many years as an agent in old Hollywood and had quite a mother lode of memories and lore.

"[He]was able to name players in some of the stills that nobody else had been able to do. His knowledge of movies was truly vast - he could name practically all the girls who dance on the aeroplane wings in Flying Down to Rio!"  -- Clive Hirschhorn

  

Apparently his last work was to be a book to be entitled "Homosexuality Ain't What It Used To Be" but never came into publication due to his death.  Alas, if it was anything like his narration in his mysteries it promised to be a humdinger.