RIP Peter Bogdanovich

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Someone I know used to work as an assistant to a director in LA. In the last 20 years, Bogdanovich was well-known as a charity case, looked after by various more successful Hollywood types. He'd lived in this director's guesthouse for a year, about a decade ago. He'd been evicted from a hotel before that for non-payment. I texted her about the death and her response: "wherever he passed, I guarantee it was someone else's guesthouse."

EDIT: re-reading this, it comes off a bit cold without context. I should mention my friend has complained about Bogdanovich for years, and he was not a great guest. He wouldn't plunge his own toilet and insisted plumbers be called instead, things like that.

You'd think that academia would be the perfect fit for him Wikipedia doesn't have him doing any gigs like that.

Then again, given his rep, it might be tough for any school to trust him with any women under, oh, say, 65?