EDWARD’S TALE – THE FIRST: Edward Tatty and elegant is a very worthy combination. Its a bit like my house on a good day. As for myself on a good day I am just tatty. I have worked that just pulled through a hedge look into a fine art. Vickie…
Category: Memoir
Good day to you, Miss Vickie, I thought you might be interested in the following on Norman Lloyd. Your piece on Dorothy Parker recalled to me that she and Bob Benchley contributed to Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” which in turn reminded me of Norman who I’d just been reading about in connection…
An image of the 1992 Los Angeles riots from the Los Angeles Times: I think this was down on Normandie – the civil unrest lasted six days. Things got quiet when the National Guard was called in. I don’t write a political blog, however, there are factors even I can’t…
George Kaplan, a friend writes from somewhere in the British Isles: I was looking for somewhere to put this and well this piece seems not totally inappropriate because the extract at least begins with a quotation about L.A.’s winter light – “Robert Towne, who wrote the L.A. classics Chinatown and…