Category: Architecture

March 29, 2017 /

“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War 2, and there’s a great similarity. It was not easy. It was hell. But it was well worth it once you got it on the screen.” Billy Wilder

“She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I’d start working on them and I’d think, ‘It’s not going to work,…

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March 23, 2017 /

The Lucky Son…conjuring both the brutality and magic of Vegas with blistering verve…a novel by Paul Hughen

September 10, 2016 /

All I do is dream of you…

Hello! This excerpt from my novel in progress is for my friend in Seattle, Scott Parker-Anderson. I’m in a helluva good mood, because after months of being forbidden from typing (separated my shoulder joint, long story, tell ya later) I am back at the keyboard. For those of you who…

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September 10, 2016 /

Tempus fugit for us all, even erstwhile denizens of Hollywood…

September 1, 2016 /

Where I get my ideas for Hollywood novels…

September 1st! Where has the time gone? I spent the spring doing a remodel on my house, and the ensuing months recovering from a shoulder injury. I was warned off sitting for hours on the computer, and thus I have been barely a presence here, and I haven’t worked on…

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August 6, 2016 /

It’s a Frank Lloyd Wright! And bring an umbrella…

Hello kittens, I thought I’d show you this – La Miniatura – draped off in tarps against the weather. Talk about maintenance! The house was originally commissioned by a rare book dealer… Paper… Water… Paper… Anything wrong here? As a follow up to the previous post (in a round about…

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August 6, 2016 /

Cedric Gibbons – design genius – husband of the most beautiful woman in Hollywood – philanderer

July 16, 2016 /

“Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn’t like it is either crazy or sober.” Raymond Chandler

July 16, 2016 /

“I don’t take the movies seriously, and anybody who does is in for a headache,” Bette Davis

Hm… She worked consistently for 58 years in film, radio, and TV (from 1931 to the year of her death in 1989). I think she took it very seriously.
July 4, 2016 /

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide…

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