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ZEPPO MARX HAD A TALENT AGENCY – HE WAS THE CUTE, NOT FUNNY ONE, THAT ALWAYS FELL IN LOVE WITH THE NICE GIRL

April 26, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Architecture, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, Photography, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, agent, architecture, art deco, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, celebrities, Classic Movies, comedy, design, film, handsome, history, Hollywood, humor, inventor, Los Angeles, Movie Star, Old Hollywood, photography, romantic lead, talent agency, The Marx Brothers, Zeppo Marx

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RITA HAYWORTH – I LOVE THE NIGHT LIFE

March 22, 2013 by Vickie Lester

I know, sometimes it’s hard to find solace in solitude — but you certainly wouldn’t have found it at Mocambo. Rita Hayworth and her agent Charlie Feldman after her divorce from the Aly Khan. At Ciro’s with Kirk Douglas… Where she said, “Please, boys, no more pictures”. It’s an uneasy relationship between star and camera, and it continues to this day.

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, agent, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, camera, celebrities, Charlie Feldman, Ciro's, Classic Movies, divorce, history, journalists, Kirk Douglas, Los Angeles, Mocambo, Movie Star, night life, nightclubs, Old Hollywood, paparazzi, photographers, photography, PR, Rita Hayworth

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SO ALIVE – A STORY BY VICKIE LESTER

March 15, 2013 by Vickie Lester

In 1996 Kier Bloomfield got his first sole screen credit as a writer. Granted it was on a low budget, a very low budget movie, that the producers guaranteed would be seen on oil refineries and tuna boats the world over. But, it was a credit and it was his. Toni Todd, the film legend, to whom he owed his fledgling career, had nothing to do with it; as a matter of fact she crinkled her nose at the whole […]

Categories: Uncategorized, Entertainment, Writing, Movies, History, Culture, Books, Architecture, Design, Art, fashion, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Photography, Film, Humor, Travel, Literature, Fiction, Story, Short Stories, Relationships, Friendship, Truth & Rumors, Life • Tags: Hollywood, scoop, Movie stars, gay, mogul, martini, writer, celebrity, bar, agent, drunk, book, screenwriter, devoted, film legend, studio, Beachwood Canyon, screen credit, low budget movie, Musso's, steak, Hollywood sign, ecstasy, young, Elks, Masons, auditor, meter, Hollywood Blvd, charlatan, alcohol, climb, Hollywood Royalty, studio head, church, secretive, Old Hollywood, rich, photo, celebrity hangouts, crush, friend, attraction, handsome, musician, piano, symphony, orchestra, talent, pictures, Essa Pekka Salonen, gossip, inside story, true story, the skinny, Hollywood Gossip, secrets, i heard it through the grapevine, film executive, movie career, beguiling, sexual attraction, sexual identity, CAA, testosterone, Musso and Frank

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DARLING, PLEASE DON’T SHOOT MY AGENT

December 26, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Heavens, such a lot of hub-bub recently about a flattened affect actress and her middle-aged married lover… Let me tell you a cautionary tale. In 1951 this Producer, whose illustrious career spanned the eras from Valentino’s “The Sheik” to Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” had a horrible fit of jealousy. I present Walter Wanger: He was married to the incandescent, Joan Bennett. Joan Bennett had a rep named Jennings Lang who was high in the strata of MCA, a talent agency that […]

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, law, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Photography, Relationships, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: "Cleopatra", "temporary insanity", "The Sheik", "Twilight", actress, affair, agent, court, Defense, jealousy, Jennings Lang, Jerry Giesler, Joan Bennett, Kristen Stewart, MCA, producer, Robert Pattinson, Rupert Sanders, shooting, Walter Wanger

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THE NATURAL… BLONDE

October 8, 2012 by Vickie Lester

She went to Yale Drama and after appearing on Broadway got a small plum part in a Weinstein film shot on location in Shreveport in the tolerable month of January. She made the big move to LA and secured an apartment on King’s Road. Eileen, a natural Nordic blonde had the chops for theater and the face for the big screen. But, nobody had told her about the insects. I’m referring to the date beetles, the babies of the earth, […]

Categories: Culture, Entertainment, Film, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: agent, blonde, casting, celebrity, chitinous, comic books, culture, digital, director, exoskeleton, film, filmmaking, Hollywood, humor, insect, Los Angeles, movie, movie roles, Nordic, Professor, Reality TV, stardom, theater, Weinstein, women in film, Yale

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ON SET

July 1, 2012 by Vickie Lester

I admit it; life on set is not all it’s cracked up to be. However, people do develop the most outrageous compensatory behaviors. One actor wiles away the boredom in between set calls by standing starkers in his trailer, arms uplifted, and demands to be dressed head to toe, without an iota… without even a lift of his little finger. Another pitches a fit and calls his agent in a huff, yelling the PA’s are attempting homicide, “Bernie! Bernie! They’re […]

Categories: Culture, Design, Entertainment, History, Movies, News, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: 1945, agent, bagel, boredom, carbs, celebrities, Cinematograher Leon Shamroy, diet, fad, Gene Tierney, Hollywood, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, Movie stars, movies, naked, on set, tantrum

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