Writer Strives to Rename Hollywood Street in Honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Petition Launched To Rename Sunset and Hayworth Blvd

(PRWEB) January 19, 2005 -- Its been done for such entertainment luminaries as Bob Hope and George Burns, and now author and journalist Rodger Jacobs hopes to convince the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to change the name of a street corner to honor F. Scott Fitzgerald on the 65th anniversary of the authors death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American icon." says Jacobs. Some would even argue that hes one of the greatest authors this country produced in the 20th Century."

When the author of The Great Gatsby" and Tender is the Night" succumbed to a fatal heart attack on December 21, 1940 he was living with gossip columnist Shelia Graham at her luxury apartment on North Hayworth Avenue in Hollywood.

Fitzgerald spent his last years here in Los Angeles, Jacobs explains. I dont think a lot of Angelenos know or appreciate that fact. He wrote extensively about L.A. in his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon" and in the Pat Hobby stories he wrote for Esquire."

Renaming the intersection of Hayworth and Sunset Boulevards, Jacobs hopes, will encourage locals to explore the literary world of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I would be happy if this attempt to keep Scotts name in the public eye would bring just one curious person to pick up a book of his that they might otherwise not have read. According to census data, the number of literate Americans who are no longer reading books at all is growing in leaps and bounds ever year."

The entire petition can be viewed and electronically signed at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Fitz40/petition.html

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