Category: Fiction

January 8, 2013 /

CONSTANCE BENNETT AS AUNTIE MAME

Auntie Mame Counts No Calories. –

January 7, 2013 /

ROMEO AND JULIET – 1934

My grandmother told me a story long ago of taking the train to New York City to see Katherine Cornell and Basil Rathbone in “Romeo and Juliet”: The first time he played Romeo, Rathbone was twenty-one – which I think would have been around 1913. In 1934 Basil would have…

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January 5, 2013 /

TRUMAN CAPOTE

The young Truman Capote of “Other Voices”. Beaton worried that success had changed Truman, and he wrote in his diary that “he looks like a tycoon, thickset, well-dressed, no longer the little gnome of Other Voices…. I secretly feel T. is in a bad state and may not last long.” …

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January 4, 2013 /

LIFE OF PI

Early concept meeting on “Life of Pi” – salary demands of Leo the Lion were not met. The role was re-cast.

January 4, 2013 /

THE GOOD EARTH – BEHIND THE SCENES

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January 3, 2013 /

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MAKING FACES

Carole Lombard: Robert Montgomery: In “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”:

January 3, 2013 /

MR. & MRS. SMITH

On set with Doug Liman: On set with Alfred Hitchock:

January 3, 2013 /

SUNSET BLVD. NEW YEAR’S EVE – 1968 – DOUG LIMAN???

I thought I recognized one of my father’s friends in this picture from 1968. But, who did I spy in the right hand lower corner but director Doug Liman? Betcha you didn’t know he was a time traveler… One of his films in the pipeline, “Everest”, about George Mallory’s ascent…

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January 1, 2013 /

HAPPY NEW YEAR

That was some party! Who are these guys?

December 28, 2012 /

BEGUILING BOOKS

I know one day I will own a Kindle – but, for now let me enjoy the gravity and enchantment of a book.