Category: Memoir

April 6, 2013 /
April 5, 2013 /
April 2, 2013 /

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…

March 27, 2013 /

My friend responds to my post (FRIENDS | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD) about growing up together: So you remember Jilly the Gerbil’s funeral! That was one of the first stories I told my kids about us too! I think we dressed up in our Sunday dress-up best because I distinctly remember dragging…

March 27, 2013 /

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…

March 22, 2013 /