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Ruth Chatterton, at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis House during the shooting of “Female.” When she retired from the screen she started writing. I found this copy of her book, “Homeward Borne” along with several others I had salvaged from the parental attic. Unlike the rest of the old novels — that I had carefully dusted and read (and known had been turned into movies) — this one went unnoticed until I spotted her inscription while organizing before the […]
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Didn’t we all have chores? Except mine weren’t professionally photographed… . .
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Hello my angels, I am enmeshed in things bookish. But, our beloved Lanier (SCENTS MEMORY | There is nothing like the smell of a man.) pointed out a treasure of a weblog and an enchanting tale… A Cary Grant Story This story was told by Ann Walker, the mother of a dear friend of ours named Alyson Daniels, whom we are fortunate to live near to in the country. This retelling is a tribute to Ann, a wonderful and dear lady, and a […]
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I’m lucky they didn’t fling me in the pool. My aunt and uncle, besides the venerable parrot, favored large dogs (I mean dogs that outweighed me) who my uncle trained in German as to foil evil doers, I presume. I’ve been talking quite a bit about my aunt, but my uncle was the perfect consort to the sardonic beauty. Very tall, very handsome, very bronzed by the sun, very lean from daily tennis matches — very, very wry sense of […]
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You all know about the young Russians who snagged 1.2 billion usernames and passwords… I say: Privet dorogaya (hello darling!) if you want to curate and write my blog—have at it. I will supply a list of Hollywood luminaries from several generations before you were born, and caution you to not mention contemporary movie stars who like to get baked and lie out by the pool. Now, once in awhile you will have to stretch your boyish minds and venture […]
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