Dennis Hensley
(September 29, ? - living) U.S.A.
Singer
Dennis was born in Holbrook, Arizona, and later graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting. While at college, Dennis performed in countless stage shows including a production of the musical Snoopy.
Dennis moved to Los Angeles after graduating from college and landed a job as a studio page ushering eager audiences into tapings for such shows as She's the Sheriff with Suzanne Somers.
A year after moving to Los Angeles, Dennis landed a job as a singer-dancer-cruise director for Princess Cruises. He would work for the company for nearly five years, performing in many musical extravaganzas with exclamations in their titles. After leaving the company, he created his own line of cruise-themed greeting cards, which were sold on ships throughout the world.
In 1990, Dennis sold his first story as a writer, Confessions Of A Boy Toy Wannabe, a first-person account of his harrowing dance audition for Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour, to Movieline magazine. He's been writing for them ever since. When he told Madonna, in a round-table interview in '95, that if it weren't for her rejecting him, he wouldn't have a writing career, she replied, "Good for you, you took a negative and turned it into a positive."
 In 1995, Dennis began writing a fiction column for Detour Magazine entitled Misadventures In The (213). Three years later, he turned his columns into a novel of the same name. In addition to landing on the L.A. Times bestseller list, the book garnered Dennis appearances on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and TNT's Movie Lounge.
The new millineum saw the release of The Water's Fine, Dennis's debut CD as a singer/songwriter. The album, which represents nearly a decade of collaboration with producer Norman Arnold, was nominated for a GLAMA Award and the disc's single "Shotgun" was the most requested song at GayBC radio for the first quarter of 2001.
Dennis wrote the 2001 Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by John Waters, and realized a lifelong dream of having a celebrity presenter trash his patter writing abilities on national television. James Woods did the honors.
In 2001. Dennis co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred with his friend Jack Plotnick in Evie Harris: Shining Star, a short film about a washed-up Hollywood actress on a quest to find her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dennis recently finished work on the feature script Testosterone.
Fall of 2002 saw the release of Screening Party, a new book about a group of friends who get together to watch and crack wise about the movies that have effected our lives, from Jaws to Pretty Woman to Flashdance to The Sound of Music.
Website: http://www.dennishensley.com/
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