Bill Zehme brought humor and a literary voice to profiles of Warren Beatty, Frank Sinatra, David Letterman, Sharon Stone and other stars.
It would be a couple’s massage.
His excuse was, metaphorically, a hallmark of his two-decade career writing for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy and Vanity Fair — to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the only way Mr. Zehme, who died March 26 at age 64, could accept his fate performing what many writers consider one of the lowest forms of journalism.“I hate celebrity journalism,” he told the Chicago Tribune.
Stars came to covet a Zehme profile. They knew anything he wrote would become a cover story, which was a huge deal in the magazine heydays of the 1980s and ’90s before the internet gutted the industry. His gets begot bigger gets — the most prominent being his 2002 William Christian Zehme was born on Oct. 28, 1958, in South Holland, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. His parents owned a flower shop. Bill had two obsessions growing up: writing and Carson. He named his high school newspaper column “Monologue” in a nod to Carson.Mr. Zehme majored in communications at Loyola University, a Jesuit school in Chicago where he wrote a front-page article paying homage to Hugh Hefner, whose Playboy magazine headquarters were not far from the school.
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