BOGART AND BACALL AT HOME
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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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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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Night falls on the red roofs of California. Sweet dreams.
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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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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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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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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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some dogs look so deliciously Slumped with their chubby cheeks.
strange that one would notice dogs when Bacall is in the room.
but he’s looking straight at the camera (like a good Hollywood-trained dog)
“Our house is a very, very, very, very, very fine house… With two cats in the yard. Life used to be so *ha-ard*, now everything is easy ’cause of you”! These picures remind me of that (sentimental) lyric; particularly the second which is so warm. Great find, Ms Vickie… (yep, as usual :))
I noticed the dogs too and maybe that is strange noticing but did you also notice Bacall is top dog because she is the only one not on the floor.
Bacall as Alpha… I like it 😉
Make me the third to notice the dogs. Not only because I love them but they seem to be the only relaxed elements in an otherwise rather staged photo…Madame Bacall looks quite bored by the proceedings…?
I think sometimes there’s a look mother’s get that’s both tired and relaxed… or I may be projecting!
To be fair, it’s Madame Bacall…she often looks bored! 😉
As for the dogs… What dogs?! Bwahahaha!
Actually, you are right Mr. K (not about the dogs, sigh), it is true that bored/detached look is what brought her stardom…should have thought twice before commenting…
Oh, Heather… Nonsense, you are right! I hope I haven’t offended you with my “jokes”, dear lady :-[
Mr. Kaplan, I started my professional life as a theatre actress in NYC…I don’t offend easily. 😉
That’s great! The only other couple I know that had three dogs (for a time) was us, although the difference is, theirs look well behaved.
Or asleep 😉
Dearest V
You know, that really does look like a home… as opposed to a “show home”.
How lovely.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
That’s exactly what I thought. Just so comfortable. I should have posted Cher’s Gothic pastiche in Malibu as a nice contrast 😉
*blinks*
did somebody say Cher?
gosh.
I have a friend she used to babysit — when she was sixteen — and she was very nice and took him go-carting.
on a first day with someone they took a call from Cher.
true story.
“welcome to Hollywood” we giggled to ourselves as we were driving.
Love this house! It looks quite modest from this angle.
Ha! In the 2nd photo, Bogie is wearing SUCH “dad” clothes, right down to the socks.
Today in Film: THE BIG SLEEP premiered 23 August, 1946, directed. by Howard Hawks.The second of four films with Bogie and Bacall. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe… Martha Vickers…