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

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ONLY MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN

February 6, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Here’s the historical context. That’s David Bowie, during a decade he reports to have forgotten, nabbed in Upstate New York on a coke charge. Talk about aplomb. He looks impossibly elegant under obviously trying circumstances. Contrast that with any mug shot you’ve seen recently of errant celebrities and then just shut your mouths! But, I digress. Recently, a music industry great of similar vintage, and possibly more lifetime habits, has returned from Switzerland with a sparkle in his eye and […]

Categories: Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Movies, Music, Photography, Relationships, Short Stories, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: actor, actress, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, celebrities, David Bowie, drugs, Elizabeth Taylor, fashion, film, Glam Rock, glamour, history, Hollywood, icon, Los Angeles, mogul, Movie stars, photography, photos, record producer, rock and roll, Stardust, Terry O'Neill, Ziggy

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CLARK GABLE

September 29, 2012 by Vickie Lester

“His ears are too big and he looks like an ape.” So said Darryl F. Zanuck after viewing Mr. Gable’s screen test for “Little Caesar”, and the rest is history. What can I say, but film executives have their ups and downs. Film making is a funny, as in odd, endeavor. From the studio system’s inception top spots in the business hierarchy have rarely gone to filmmakers. The rare exceptions we’ll talk about in another post, but today we’re going […]

Categories: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: "Avatar", "Little Caesar", art, Clark Gable, computer game, creative, Darryl F. Zanuck, development, digital vs film, ears, filmmaker, films, gamble, instinct, involvement, megalomaniac, mogul, movies, performance, pitch, previsualization, producer, script, studio, studio executive, womanizer

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September 5, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Today is Darryl F. Zanuck’s birthday:

Categories: Cooking, Culture, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: 20th Century Fox, Beverly Hills, birthday, Boss, cake, celebrities, Chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, Darrylin Zanuck, executive commisary, Hollywood, Los Angeles, married to Virginia Zanuck, mogul, Movie stars, Old Hollywood, Photograph, picture, Richard D. Zanuck, starlets, studio dining room, studio head, studio machine, Studio System, Susan Zanuck, War effort

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