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‘The Lost Supreme’ and a Classic Hollywood Con

OSM! online magazine is republishing the article of NWU-NY writer Peter Benjaminson, upon his permission, titled ‘The Lost Supreme’ and a Classic Hollywood Con which saw print in the Rolling Stone in July 2014.

 

 

 

 

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The call that I’d been waiting for all my life came, naturally, while I was away from my Manhattan home in the summer of 2010.

“My name is Karen Spencer,” a sultry female voice cooed into the phone of my Providence, Rhode Island, motel room. “I’m a film producer and investor and I just loved your latest book. I’d love to make it into a movie.”

The book she was referring to was The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard. Ballard had been one of the original Supremes until she was forced out of the three-woman group by Motown founder Berry Gordy and Supreme diva Diana Ross.

After spending much of her post-Supreme life on welfare, Ballard died of coronary artery thrombosis at age 32 in 1976. I had interviewed her for eight hours over several weeks in 1975 and then spent 32 years looking for a publisher to print the biography I wrote based on those interviews. Chicago Review Press finally published the book in 2008.

An awesome afternoon with NYC writers of the NWU which has lined up year-long activities to boot.

Peter with some NWU NYC colleagues in a writer’s picnic.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-lost-supreme-and-a-classic-hollywood-con-20140701#ixzz3Dt84JSjl

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