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My Medical Choice – NYTimes.com – Angelina Jolie – The Most Beautiful Woman In The World

May 14, 2013 by Vickie Lester

MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Children, Culture, Film, Friendship, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Mother's Day, Movies, News, Parenting, Photography, Relationships, Science, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actress, admirable, Anjelina Jolie, behind the scenes, body, BRCA1 gene, breast cancer, breast cancers, children, double masectomy, double mastectomy, fatality, faulty gene, gene mutation, health, Hollywood, image, Los Angeles, medical choice, motherhood, Movie Star, Opinion, ovarian cancer, photography, present, preventative, smart cookie, stardom, the most beautiful woman in the world, The New York Times

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LANA – PERHAPS NOT THE GREATEST MAMA

May 9, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Books, Children, Crime, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Mother's Day, Movies, News, Parenting, Photography, Relationships, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: aging star, Beverly Hills, Cheryl Crane, crime, cry, daughter, faint, fatally stabbed, Hollywood scandal, Jerry Geisler, Johnny Stompanato, jury, justifiable homicide, kitchen knife, Lana Turner, Mickey Cohen, mob, Mother, murder, no finger prints, not guilty, on the stand, performance, self-defense, thug, traumatizing

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Leo McCarey Pearl S. Buck discuss screenplay Bamboo Curtain 1961

QUANTIFYING SCREENPLAYS – THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS

May 6, 2013 by Vickie Lester

THE NEW YORK TIMES Leo McCarey and Pearl S. Buck discuss her screenplay for, “The Bamboo Curtain”, 1961 May 5, 2013 Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — Forget zombies. The data crunchers are invading Hollywood. The same kind of numbers analysis that has reshaped areas like politics and online marketing is increasingly being used by the entertainment industry. Netflix tells customers what to rent based on algorithms that analyze previous selections, […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, New York, News, Photography, Relationships, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: art vs commerce, bean counters, behind the scenes, creativity, crunching the numbers, data, director, entertainment, film, history, Hollywood, Leo McCarey, Los Angeles, Movie Star, Pearl S. Buck, photography, screenplay, screenwriters, The New York Times, writers screwed

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Annex - Loy, Myrna_16

TIME TO TOUGHEN UP PRINCESS

April 27, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Hello angelic ones, Pictured above is Myrna Loy, glamorous? Undoubtedly. Comfortable? Well let’s see, her eyes are taped, she has a twenty pound headdress on, she probably spent four hours in makeup, and that heavily brocaded and sparkling gown looks – itchy. So, in answer to my own question – she probably is nowhere near comfortable – and I haven’t even mentioned the blistering hot kilowatts creating that oh-so-special aura… I hear from my husband stories of the oh-so-unglamorous toil […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, DIY, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, News, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, arduous, art deco, Asia, Australian, behind the scenes, celebrities, China, Classic Movies, design, director, extras, fashion, film, glamour, head dress, history, Hollywood, humor, ill, illusion, lighting, Los Angeles, Makeup, Mongolia, Movie Star, movies, Myrna Loy, Old Hollywood, on set, oysters, photography, Steppes, The Barbarian 1933, the stuff that dreams are made of, tribesmen

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Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's IN A LONELY

IN A LONELY PLACE – OR – WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?

April 19, 2013 by Vickie Lester

This was our first post on March 31st, 2012 – I re-posted it in June of the same year, and for some reason, and I know this speaks to a certain pettiness in my soul – I’m putting it up again. As my friend, the fabulous Heidi of NYC – Heidi Gutman Photography – would say – meeee-ow! Word has it the third wife of a blockbuster star is getting the jitters over having signed a pre-nuptial and several nondisclosure […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Children, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, News, Parenting, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: A Lonely Place, actor, actress, airline, attorney, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, celebrities, Classic Movies, divorce, filed New York, film, gay, Gloria Grahame, history, Hollywood, humor, Humphrey Bogart, Iceland, Los Angeles, marriage, Movie Star, Movie stars, New York, Nicholas Ray, on set, photography, Santana Productions, Xenu

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Dance Marathon 1930s

ANOTHER KIND OF MARATHON FROM ANOTHER TIME

April 15, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Dancers taking a break curbside in Los Angeles during the 1930s… I leave this in the capable hands of Andrew Sullivan because I am too overwhelmed to comment. Face Of The Day Apr 15 2013 @ 5:40pm Explosions At 117th Boston Marathon Victims are in shock and being treated at the scene of the first explosion that went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. By John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. via The Dish.

Categories: Uncategorized, History, Culture, News, Art, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Film, Blogging, Crime, Life • Tags: news, grief, sports, Boston Marathon, Andrew Sullivan, two killed, two bombs, finish line, getty images, first explosion, boston globe

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1961 Federal Building LA

TAXES DUE TODAY

April 15, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Advertising, Architecture, Art, Blogging, Chicago, Children, Culture, Design, DIY, Entertainment, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, law, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, New York, News, Photography, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: 1960, 2013, a light in the window, architecture, downtown Los Angeles, Federal Building, file now, Hollywood, IRS, Los Angeles, taxes due april 15, taxes due by midnight

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For Neff, an era of glamour came first – Los Angeles Times

April 13, 2013 by Vickie Lester

March 18, 2004|David A. Keeps | Times Staff Writer For Neff, an era of glamour came first He was the architect to the golden age stars, creating elaborate European-styled homes such as Pickfair. His houses are still on the A-list, sheltering Pitt, Aniston and Keaton. Innovative as they were, Wallace Neff’s WW II-era low-cost housing designs such as the the Shell House in Pasadena never really caught on in America. No matter. Neff was already famous as the architect of […]

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, News, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, Architect, architectural preservation, architecture, art deco, behind the scenes, Brad Pitt, celebrities, design, Diane Keaton, era of glamour, film, Frederic March, history, Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Meshulam Riklis tore down Pickfair, Movie Star, Old Hollywood, photography, Wallace Neff

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LABOR DISPUTE – WARNER BROS. 1945 – AND POST # 701

April 6, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, law, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, News, Photography, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, architecture, behind the scenes, celebrities, Classic Movies, design, director, film, firehose, history, Hollywood, labor, Los Angeles, Movie Star, Old Hollywood, on set, photography, photos, riot, union busting, unions, Warner Bros., work conditions

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Oral Arguments – 82 pages – Hollingsworth v. Perry

March 26, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Oral Arguments: 12-144.exe – 12-144a.pdf. Addressing the merits of the case during the first of two days of arguments on same-sex marriage, Justice Kennedy voiced sympathy for the children of gay and lesbian couples. “There’s some 40,000 children in California that live with same-sex parents,” he said, as the justices debated the state’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. “They want their parents to have full recognition and full status. The voice of those children is important.” via Justices to […]

Categories: law, Marriage, News, Parenting • Tags: current-events, gay and lesbian couples, human-rights, Justice Kennedy, news, NYTimes, oral arguments, politics, same sex parents, Supreme Court

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