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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 – Monumental Stars

The crypt of Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Junior – looking spooky – at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery down on Santa Monica Boulevard –

But not far away, near the grave of Cecil B DeMille, there's this –

To explain, from Rolling Stone, December 18, 2001 –

Betty Blowtorch front woman Bianca Halstead was killed on December 15th in a car accident near New Orleans. She was thirty-six.

Halstead, who performed as Bianca Butthole for the up-and-coming female punk quartet, was the passenger in a 1986 Corvette that spun into oncoming traffic at about 5 a.m. on Saturday at a speed believed to be in excess of 100 miles-per-hour. Earlier that evening, Halstead and Betty Blowtorch performed at the Howlin' Wolf in New Orleans, where they shared a bill with tour-mates Nashville Pussy. …

In the early Nineties, Halstead performed as a singer and bassist in Los Angeles punk ensemble Butt Trumpet before departing with two other members – guitarists Blare N. Bitch and Sharon Needles - to form Betty Blowtorch three years ago. …

You see, it’s the grave of Bianca Butthole, formerly of Butt Trumpet, then with the band Betty Blowtorch –

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