Category: London

December 7, 2013 /

Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.

December 7, 2013 /

I decided against it. Here’s a description of the novel from the back of the book cover:

December 7, 2013 /

The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…

December 2, 2013 /

Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…

November 9, 2013 /

Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign by Hope Anderson Introduction          My interest in the actress Peg Entwistle, who in 1932 committed suicide from the Hollywood Sign (which then read Hollywoodland), began in 2006, when I began researching the neighborhood’s history for my documentary, Under the Hollywood Sign. Though seventy-four…

November 5, 2013 /

Vivien Leigh arrives in Los Angeles via Paris in 1953:

November 5, 2013 /