The ex-con author and sometime L.A. Weekly columnist died in a hotel room and not heroically. Howard Blume, his editor at the Weekly, does the honors. Howard also gets off a good quip in the LAT obit: "Doing the fact-checking on Eddie's column was very challenging."
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