The comic strip Doonesbury had a fictitious suntanning competition called the "George Hamilton Pro-Am Celebrity Cocoa Butter Open.''
When George Hamilton dated Lynda Bird Johnson Robb in the 1960s, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, they were protected by Secret Service agents.
"Movies are the enemy of the novel because they are replacing novels. Novelists shouldn’t write for the movies, unless, of course, they discover they’re no good at writing novels." - John Irving
