1. Joe Hyams was an American Hollywood columnist and author of bestselling biographies of Hollywood stars.
12 Facts About Joe Hyams
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Joe Hyams received a Purple Heart and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal while serving in the South Pacific.
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Joe Hyams later covered the war for Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the United States Armed Forces.
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Joe Hyams earned bachelor's and master's degrees at New York University, after returning from military service.
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Joe Hyams was flown to Mexico on a small airplane and came back into the United States with a group crossing the border illegally.
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When Joe Hyams arrived, Bogart was behind the bar and offered him a drink.
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Joe Hyams covered Hollywood as a syndicated columnist from 1951 to 1964.
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Joe Hyams co-authored celebrity autobiographies, with Chuck Norris on The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story and worked on Michael Reagan: On the Outside Looking In, with the adopted son of the former President.
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Joe Hyams wrote novels set in Hollywood, such as The Pool and Murder at the Academy Awards.
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Joe Hyams first became involved in the martial arts during his wartime service in the US Army, when he was regularly beaten up for being Jewish.
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Joe Hyams had been a longtime resident of Los Angeles and moved to Penrose, Colorado, three years before his death.
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Joe Hyams 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.