Joe Hyams
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Joe Hyams (June 6, 1923 – November 8, 2008) was an American Hollywood columnist and author of bestselling biographies of Hollywood stars.
Personal life
His third marriage was to 24-year-old actress Elke Sommer in November 1964 in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas.
Hyams had been a longtime resident of Los Angeles and moved to Penrose, Colorado, three years before his death. He died at age 85 on November 8, 2008, from coronary artery disease at a hospital in Denver, leaving his fourth wife Melissa, two sons, and two daughters.
Career
Hyams was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 6, 1923, and grew up in nearby Brookline. In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army while attending Harvard University. While serving in the South Pacific, he earned a Purple Heart and was given the Bronze Star Medal. He later covered the war for Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the United States Armed Forces. Since returning from military service, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at New York University.
The New York Herald Tribune had him write an article on illegal immigration to the United States in 1951. He was flown to Mexico on a small plane and returned to the United States with a crowd illegally crossing the border. After the story was complete, his editor informed him that a bed was waiting for him at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "Take a break and if you have a chance to interview any film stars, go for it." When asked by a man seated at the hotel's pool what he was doing at the hotel, he replied that he was supposed to interview movie stars. "How would you like to interview Humphrey Bogart?" What turned out to be Bogart's press agent, was the reply. Bogart was at the bar and gave him a drink when Hyams arrived. When Hyams asked for a Coke and Bogart, he responded angrily: "I don't trust any bastard who doesn't drink, especially a pipe-smoking newspaperman..." or a man with more hair than I do." Hyams' notebook was pulled out of his pocket and led to the door at this moment. On his way out, he said, "I don't drink," he said, "and I certainly have more hair on my head than you do." Bogart liked the honesty of his reply and not only gave Hyams an interview but invited him to lunch as soon as it appeared. In comparison to the Humphrey Bogart interview, Hyams interviewed Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy during the week. He was moved to Los Angeles by the Herald Tribune, according to the newspaper. From 1951 to 1964, he covered Hollywood as a syndicated columnist.
After leaving the Herald Tribune, Hyams reported on Hollywood for the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and other magazines.
He was the author (or co-author) of more than two dozen books, the bulk of which were biographies of the celebrities he covered, including Bogie in 1966, Bogart & Bacall: A Love Story in 1975, and James Dean: Little Boy Lost in 1992. He co-authored celebrity autobiographies with Chuck Norris on The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story and worked with Michael Reagan on The Inside View Inside, with the former president's adopted son. Mislaid in Hollywood, his own autobiography, was published in 1973. At the Academy Awards, he also wrote books set in Hollywood, such as The Pool and Murder.
Zen in the Martial Arts, a 1979 publication, was based on his many years of studying martial arts with artists such as Bong Soo Han, Bruce Lee, and Ed Parker. He first joined the martial arts during his wartime service in the US Army, when he was still being beat up for being Jewish. He became a kenpo karate student and studied Jeet Kune Do with Bruce Lee, as well as becoming proficient in eight other martial arts branches after the war. Melissa Hyams wrote that the slim book "isn't really about martial arts." It's about life and philosophy, how to turn a negative into a positive, and how to defuse a situation by the way you handle it. That's what he'll be remembered for most."
Accomplices to the Crime, by penologist Tom Murton, a 1969 nonfiction biography that was used as the basis for Robert Redford's 1980 film Brubaker starring Robert Redford with supporting roles played by Yaphet Kotto and Morgan Freeman.
In 1991, he wrote the non-fiction book Flight of the Avenger: George Bush at War.