Author Ray Bradbury and a Hodel Quartet of Synchronicities- 1948-1953-1982-2004
Bradbury Event No. 1- 1947-8
SUMMER NIGHT In 1947, just months after the sensational newspaper reportage
Bradbury Event No. 2- 1953
Ray Bradbury is contacted by legendary film director John Huston (A life long and close friend to Dr. George Hill Hodel and formerly married for seven years to George’s ex-wife, Dorothy “Dorero” Huston Hodel and mother to my two brothers Mike and Kelvin and myself.) Huston hires Bradbury to come to Ireland and write the screenplay for his next film, MOBY DICK. Bradbury agrees and in addition to the script writes his own book, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury’s Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland. John Huston Dorothy Huston HodelExcerpt from Wikipedia on Bradbury book, Green Shadows White Whale:
Bradbury Event No. 3- 1982
Mike Hodel interviews Ray Bradbury for new TV show SF Hour 25
KPFK Radio Host Mike Hodel’s 1983 Lost Video Promo for Hour 25 SFTV Found (originally posted on my blog 12/2/16 courtesy of a reader “Gothling55”. Click below for 3 min promo.
Bradbury Event No. 4- 2004
La Quinta Roundtable West, Palm Desert, with Ray Bradbury and Steve Hodel 2004 In 2004, a year after the publication of my first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, I was honored to co-host a talk at a La Quinta Roundtable West luncheon in Palm Desert, California with novelist Ray Bradbury. We each spoke on our separate writings followed by and audience Q&A.Bradbury/Hodel- A Sixty Year Synchronicity
What I find fascinating is how three separate “Hodel connections” and four totally separate events, (let’s call them “meaningless coincidences”) seemingly disconnected from each other would interweave and all connect to the personage of this respected novelist. 1948- Bradbury writes a short story likely based on the 1946 Chicago Lipstick serial killer and or the 1947 Jeanne French Lipstick Murder (both committed by Dr. George Hodel) and his story is aired as a radio drama in 1948. 1953- Bradbury is hired by John Huston (a close friend of Dr. George Hodel) and formerly married to the doctor’s wife to write the Moby Dick screenplay and goes on to write a expose on Huston as a separte book. 1982- Bradbury meets and does an extensive SciFi television interview with Mike Hodel (son of Dr. George Hodel). 2004- Bradbury meets and does co-hosts a literary luncheon with fellow writer Steve Hodel (son of Dr. George Hodel). Below Ray Bradbury receives the National Medal of Arts Award from President George Bush and his wife Laura Bush. South Pasadena Library Honors 90th Birthday (Bradbury died in 2012 at age 91)The post Author Ray Bradbury and a Hodel Quartet of Synchronicities- 1948-1953-1982-2004 appeared first on Steve Hodel.
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