HOT INSIDER STORIES FROM HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN 1950s, TOLD IN TRUE PULP FICTION STYLE.

“Elvis Presley and George Klein, one of Elvis’s inner circle, pulled up in long black Cadillac limousine style. Elvis was at the wheel. I jumped in the backseat and we took off—three for the road.” “The flag was dropped and James Dean, starting from 18th on the grid, shot through the pack balls out, like a man possessed. After a few laps he made it up to fourth place before a blown piston ended his day. Jimmy was turbulent with the situation.” “The groove rocked in once more with a churning precision. Like sensual thunder, it shook the room with sexual vibrations. There on the bandstand, like a benevolent Buddha, dressed in Levis and an open neck shirt, was Marlon Brando. He was as cool as a night breeze over Alaska. With his hands in motion he caressed the congas, playing as if willing his adoring flock to follow him into the loving arms of immortality."

Steve Rowland was born in Hollywood in 1939. His father, Roy Rowland, was a top MGM film director who made films with stars such as Debbie Reynolds, Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney, and Mario Lanza. His mother Ruth Rowland was a script writer and the niece of Louis B. Meyer of MGM Studios fame. Steve’s own movie credits include Gun Glory with Stewart Granger and Rhonda Fleming, Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas, and Crime in the Streets with John Cassavettes and Sal Mineo, among others. As a teenager, Steve dated many glamorous starlets and wrote gossip columns for many motion picture fanzines. His friends include Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, James Dean and Natalie Wood. He hit the charts as a rock ’n roll heartthrob. Then settled in swinging sixties London where he produced million-selling pop record classics for artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, The Thompson Twins, and Dave Dee, Dozie, Beaky, Mick, and Tich, as well as his own chart topping group, The Family Dogg, where he was the lead singer. As an aficionado of dangerous sports, from Motocross, to Go-karting, to skiing, and a lover of fast cars and even faster women, he may be the last of the famous international playboys.