| It was one of Hollywood s most shock-ing and scandalous tragedies-theGood Friday 1958 slaying of screen god-dess Lana Turner s mobster boyfriend,Johnny Stompanato, by Turner s four-teen-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane.Now, thirty years later, Cheryl finallytells what really happened that terriblenight, offering a searing, moving, andalways gripping account, not just of theStompanato stabbing, but of what ledup to it and what came after. It is, as sheputs it, the story of how a "young life ofpromise and privilege made a detourthrough hell: In Detour. A Hollywood Story, CherylCrane vividly recalls the phenomenalpleasures and brutal pains of growingup as a Hollywood "star baby" in the1940s and 1950s-a time when the glam-our factories were at their peak. Sheremembers playing in the backyardwith Liza Minelli and being serenadedby Frank Sinatra. But she also recalls amovie-star mother willing to give every-thing but hey time, and a series of"uncles" and stepfathers, some ofwhom ignored her, others of whom liedto her-and one of whom repeatedlyraped her. |
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