The Mystery of Hollywood's Dead Republican - NYT

[Burma Jones]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/arts/01mcdo.html?8hpib



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ON the morning of Saturday, Feb. 26, a day before the Academy Awards, the actress Carrie Fisher woke up in her Beverly Hills home next to the lifeless body of a gay Republican political operative named R. Gregory Stevens.

Thus ended one of the more improbable friendships that Hollywood and Washington have known - and a globe-trotting, adventurous, but ultimately debilitating existence that might be fodder for a Tinseltown thriller, if it only had a satisfying resolution.

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[tanyev]

1. Interesting article.

I don't understand why Mr. Stevens continued to serve a political party that built its success on a constituency that despised him.