THE LOST WEEKEND
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing
Monthly Archives: April 2012
CHARACTER ACTRESS
Beguiling wordsmith, Michelle Bitting, remembers her Great Grandmother, character actress of the Golden Era in prose: http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=7098&fb_source=message And, poetry: NOTES TO THE BELOVED (available on Amazon.com) Beryl Mercer, Actress (b.1882—d.1939) Time was you could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and catch Great Grandma’s name flaming every cherry marquee. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Cagney’s long-suffering mom in The Public Enemy, she made the melancholy matriarch with her ocean liner hips and squat size, made the big brown spigots of […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: actress, Chaplin, Faulkner, history, Hollywood, martini, Michelle Bitting, Movie stars, Musso and Franks, Poet
THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing
YUMMY
A young actor anxious to establish his heterosexual cred strolling to Stage 4 at Warner Brothers recently spied a young starlet, of similarly scrumptious attitude. Networks and producers and attorneys were consulted and the fortunate two exchanged numbers. After some highly publicized outings to the Skybar, the Vanguard, and the (ever popular) Disney Land, a knee was bent and a promise made. The happy couple moved into his perfectly adorable mid-century modern just above the Sunset Strip. The young TV […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: celebrities, gay, Hollywood, in the closet, Movie stars
GOD DAMN IT! THOSE ARE MY TIGHTS!
Listen, when Wolford hosiery is upwards of fifty dollars a pair and a La Perla bra and panty set will sent you back considerable coin it’s a given someone gets a might peevish when their dainties disappear. I understand their ire. What makes it all worse is if the culprit is your husband. Actually, what makes it worse is that he stretches the stockings to the point of being unwearable and in an attempt to hide his use of your […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: action hero, cross-dresser, Hollywood, lingerie, marriage
POUF, HONEY! I HAVEN’T SEEN YOU IN ABOUT A THOUSAND PAGES!
Hollywood scribes split. Team torn asunder, etc. Here’s the scoop: married fresh out of USC this pair of screenwriters turned their youth and acerbic wit into box office gold. That was thirty years ago. Well into their fifties their interests diverged, to a certain extent, they both had started to direct; he historical dramas, she romantic comedies. While they both had the same pat answer for their divorce, those in the know were aware he (fueled by Viagra) was keeping […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: Hollywood, Infidelity, Viagra
MEASURING UP
A little bird in the wardrobe department chirped this item in my ear –she was having a hard time getting actors under thirty to put on their underwear. Besides the obvious issues of hygiene what you wear under your costume affects how the garments look on top. Children, it isn’t a question of free will, networks and the MPAA come down hard on odd protuberances and popping nipples. Okay? Apparently this wasn’t a problem only in our era. (Insert shameless […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: film history, Movie stars, wardrobe
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
Contrary to the impression given by “Reality TV” women are not fiendish back stabbing connivers. I have it from good authority that a group of friends who met while babysitting the children of the mighty have remained steadfastly loyal as they rose through the Hollywood strata. All but one has gained preeminence in their fields; law, design, academia, and entertainment. And, the one who didn’t gain preeminence in her field married well. I guess “married well” is a relative term. […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: girl friends, Hollywood, hookers, Paramount
HAIL FELLOW WELL MET
Hi-de-ho! I know you’ve heard it said, Hollywood is a small town. Well, it’s true. I was marketing at the Pavilions on Sunset, almost, but not quite in Beverly Hills, when I spied an unlikely pair of actors ahead of me in the checkout line. They didn’t have a cart, but the taller of the two was toting one of those plastic baskets, which are just big enough to get very heavy – you know what I mean if you’ve […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, History, Movies, Writing • Tags: actors, closeted, gay, West Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD SAVED BY UNICORN BLOOD, OR THE EASTER BUNNY?
I had the pleasure recently of taking in the beautiful Brasilia like setting of an office complex in Century City. The worker bees there swarmed in luscious suits and the most gorgeous shoes. I do believe I spied a wiry producer, with the trademark electrostatic hair, juggling iPhones. However, it was enough for me to merely sit outside the Annenberg Space for Photography and soak up the ambience. Later, while lunching at Craft with SOPA P., an agent of purest […]
Categories: Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Writing • Tags: Hollywood, legend, scoop, SOPA, unicorn
