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“Lily harbored a den of coyotes in her back yard. They went about their nocturnal haunts stealthy-like, unless they were circling to prey and then they raised all hell. Yelps and howls, high-pitched and stunningly shrill, vibrated in the dark. In echoing canyons or flat streets stretching to meet the hilly wilderness, Los Angelinos — both dreaming and about to be eaten — startled into heightened perception.”
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Want to hear the beginning of a story? Let me read to you, link in the profile.
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#goodmorning #audio #losangeles #noir #goodreads #historichomes #amreading #amwriting #writer #storytime #bookworm #bibliophile #december #mood #explore #create #blackandwhitephotography #portrait #interiordesign #elegance #booklover #creative #antique
Do nondisclosure agreements apply to #fiction? I don’t think so... Link in the profile.
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“I had become a suit, and I vowed to myself, if not anyone else, I would never forget movies were made on cavernous stages and dusty streets all over the world; not in the corporate tower where my old boss had held sway.
What of my old boss? The guitar-strumming scion of the old Hollywood family had decamped the area for the trout streams of Montana... I do get distracted sometimes. Please forgive me. What was it I meant to say? Oh, yes. I remember. In Hollywood employees are contractually obligated not to squeal on social media about the internal workings of the dream factory.”
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#romanàclef, #hollywood, #studio, #behindthescenes, #amwriting, #writer, #novel, #explore, #reading, #visualsoflife, #agameoftones, #bookquotes, #wordsmith, #reflection #postitfortheaesthetic
Night falls on the red roofs of California. Sweet dreams.
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#historic #historichome, #historichouse #historicpreservation #oldhomelove #architecture #architecturelovers #exteriordesign #architecturaldetail #style #design #nightphotography #lightandshadow #nightsky #uplighting #nightscape #garden #curbappeal #losangeles #houseportrait #captivatinghouses #romantichome #californiadreaming #goodnight
What am I hiding? A spider bite! Do I hide much in the pages of my new Hollywood novel? Nothing you won’t have fun trying to figure out...
“Late in the summer following my sophomore year, I was living in the Beverly Hills home of a blonde former figure skater. She had met Mr. Major Movie Star on a commercial promoting California cheese...arguably a metaphor for something.”
There are more pages up on the blog today, link in the profile.
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#portrait #author #authorlife #blackandwhitephotography #bookaddiction #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #behindthescenes #hollywood #moviemagic #lovereading #bookworm #bookish #lovereading #excerpt #amwriting #readers #lovetowrite #californiadreaming
See what’s unfurling on the blog, it might be a new #Hollywood novel...
“Life never is a simple linear narrative; it’s too messy and senseless. On the other hand a memoir, no, make that a novel (a much less contentious prospect) is an attempt to resolve the random acts of a life and give them meaning — put them into some sort of context. Whether this reads as simply an insider chronicle of a life lived in Hollywood or another of those cautionary tales about the same, I’ll leave to you, gentle reader, my unknown confidant.”
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#bookaddiction #bookstagram #bibliophile #author #booklover #mustread #petals #rose #behindthescenes #moviemagic #lovereading #bookworm #bookish #ilovereading #amwriting #readers
It’s a good night when @kfullermendez calls me from the east to herald a moonrise over the west. #goodnight #supermoon #sweetdreams @heybillkuhn @antiquegoddess
“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationary store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. Here is the last of that generation of chain smokers who woke the world in the morning with their coughing, who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like “the Cleveland Chicken,” sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are.”
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I picked up a sweet #volume of short stories in the new year, continuing my #love affair with fictional Manhattan.
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#stories #manhattan #nyc #johncheever #bookbliss #bibliophile #exploretocreate #empirestatebuilding #architecture #streetscape #citylife #literature #author #writer #bookstagram #bookstoread #cityscape #skyscraper #bluesky #writerslife #thestoriesofjohncheever
Traveling SW I promised @heybillkuhn I’d take pictures... Over breakfast in the dining car I learned how to bet the horses. Sharing a meal with people I’ve never met is now one of my favorite things to do.
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So relaxing watching the country roll by, thinking about what to make for Christmas dinner back home. #Pavlova? #ChocolateMousse? For recipes check out the link in the profile.
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#trainstation #exploretocreate #artofvisuals #waiting #portrait #citylife #architecture #homewardbound #urban #dawn #interior #graphicdesign #art #lifeisbeautiful #journey #style #friends #everyonehasastory #itsinhiskissbyvickielester #amwriting another #hollywood #novel
feathers-on-the-lipstick
that’s all we recall from combining the two 😉
Oh! One never thinks of those things…
that’s why the make-up artists are Always On Hand.
Your best friend and confidante on set!
hahaha 😀 you totally stole one half of my comment-to-be (other half being my usual fun-free, cruelty-free-blabla, strange coming from a russian who grew up on caviar and wore a fur even as a baby, but I’ve come to my senses eventually)
Beautycalyptique! Back it up, “strange coming from a Russian who grew up on caviar and wore a fur even as a baby” — what?!? That is a story I would LOVE to hear, perhaps a future post on your web log?
gaaaah!
it’s not a very thrilling story, really. we are a nation that holds to their furs and other decadent excesses like the french to their foie gras, nothing to be proud of in 2013 😀
maybe in one of upcoming interviews 😉 will keep this in the back of my mind
Please, do — this is fascinating stuff!
speaking of eyebrows:
mine are like, “the only way is up”. but seriously, I’m making a series of vids for my hall of fame ladies only, maybe I can sneak in some of my exotic past into those 😀
(and I am totally adding you to that club)
*giggling* in west hollywood.
well it’s true.
an odd combination – feathers/lipstick (and we remember fur too – such strange days)
quite patrick-bateman-y, wasn’t they?
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Caribou? Oh, *marabou*. Oops, never mind!
Seriously, those images: g-g-golly! I like!
I could swear it’s the same jacket plucked out of wardrobe — but, saying that I know there were MULTIPLES.
Dearest V
Many ostriches were harmed in the making of those shots… well they were not plucked in vain is all I can say!
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
It does look kind of floaty and fabulous 🙂
both ladies are the ultimate proof that you get the face you earn.
we can all look drop-dead-glamourous; we can all look like yet another bird. #badfeatherpun
You’ve got me started noticing eyebrows, and Carole Lombard’s are beautiful — I know Harlow’s were the style of the time, but they’re very severe.
eyebrows can change a face completely!
and yes, severe is the right word. aliens come to the mind, too.
I was drinking coffee, and I have to say, laughing out loud at your comment — yes, I think you’ve nailed Harlow’s otherworldly allure!
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Have you noticed the carved hand on the headboard?
That is fabulous, I didn’t see it — oh, wouldn’t that headboard be a find?
Marabou pyjamas or sleeping in the same bed with cats…. either way you wake up with stuff stuck in your eyelashes! Meow.
P.S. I need that telephone.