A.D. Winans just sent me this. Seems that the AP picked up the story and ran it (The CNN.com article was actually from the AP, which means that many, many, many news organizations will run the story verbatim.) Tomorrow this story will be big news.
I thought that they were at that meeting where the allegations were "scoffed at". will they run a retraction tomorrow? I think not, instead this very same article will appear in no less than 50 newspapers...
Bill
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http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/11909411.html
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> L.A. move to recognize poet's home opposed
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> Charles Bukowski lived at east Hollywood bungalow, writing "the great
> books that really started him on his career," a supporter says. Co-owner
> of property says he was a Nazi sympathizer. He later lived in San Pedro.
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> By Jacob Adelman
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> The Associated Press
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> Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed writer Charles Bukowski once described himself
> as a guy who wouldn't walk away from a brawl.
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> Now it's up to fans of the gutter poet to take up the fight to have his
> bungalow turned into a civic monument over the objections of the
> property's owners, who claim he was a Nazi sympathizer.
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> Backers say the east Hollywood abode deserves recognition and the
> restoration that would go with it because it's where Bukowski banged out
> stories and poems that transformed him from a working stiff with a
> literary streak into an internationally celebrated author.
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> "The great books that really started him on his career - that all happened
> on De Longpre," said Neeli Cherkovski, author of "Bukowski: A Life" and a
> friend of the writer. "It was where Charles Bukowski became the voice of
> Los Angeles."
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> But the owners, who tried to sell the bungalow court as tear-down for $1.3
> million, are poised to fight the proposal before a city commission today
> based on allegations that Bukowski had Nazi leanings.
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> Co-owner Victoria Gureyeva refused to discuss the issue on her lawyer's
> advice, but previously said she would enlist local Jewish activists in her
> campaign against landmarking.
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> "This man loved Hitler," Gureyeva, who is Jewish, told the alternative
> newspaper LA Weekly. "This is my house, not Bukowski's. I will never allow
> the city of Los Angeles to turn it into a monument for this man."
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> The city's preservationist community is lining up behind the proposal,
> although some were bemused that a man known best for boozy excesses might
> have the place he once lived given the same landmark designation as City
> Hall and the Hollywood sign.
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> Bukowski, who later lived in San Pedro and died of leukemia in 1994 at 73,
> has a cultish following around the world and the esteem of critics and
> fellow literati.
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> Sean Penn, Tom Waits and Bono have professed their admiration for the
> writer. The movies "Barfly" and "Factotum" were based on his books and his
> papers join manuscripts and rare volumes from Shakespeare and Chaucer at
> the Huntington Library in San Marino.
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> But he is as well-known for his image as a down-at-the-heels drunk and for
> pronouncements like, "Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
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> The impulse to make Bukowski's home a monument comes from a feeling that
> he was a more accurate chronicler of the city than other writers, said
> David Fine, author of "Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction."
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> Raymond Chandler, Aldous Huxley, Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald
> are far brighter literary lights, along with others who came here to toil
> as screenwriters. But they tended to portray an apocalyptic landscape of
> crime noir and empty celebrity. Bukowski grew up here and saw it from a
> less cynical, more authentic down-to-earth vantage.
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