1970s-80s filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich dies at 82 -- but a 1980 murder basically ruined him

[The Boz]

I don’t know too much about that period. I always conflated Roman Polanski and Bogdanovich.

I never really followed the Dorothy Stratton story but I conflated that with the Hogans Hero star Bob Crane death, sex, lies and videotape. I believe they were both same time frame.

Bob Crane was killed in 1978, so yeah, roughly the same timeframe.

I was too young at the time to have paid attention to either of these. I was 8 years old in 1980, so none of these movies or TV shows interested me, nor did I pay attention to the news.

The Bob Crane story is fascinating as well. There was a 2002 movie “Auto Focus” about it as well as many TV documentaries over the years about it.

The dude was kinky as hell and was surrounded by many rumors over the years but in the end it seemed his friend killed him over an argument, though he wasn’t convicted of it.