Category: New York

October 18, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Migraine Friday – Sorry I haven’t been responding to comments

This is a dance troupe from 1938 that performed in Los Angeles — one of them is Sybil Shearer – kinda the mama of Modern Dance… I love the image and it struck me as vertiginous — which I pat myself on the back for pulling out of my foggy…

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October 9, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Christopher Walken reads Three Little Piggies

October 2, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Second Ave. Subway Line Won’t Have Sidewalk Ventilation Grates – NYTimes.com

It is one of the most memorable of all the many memorable images of Marilyn Monroe — standing over a sidewalk subway grate on Lexington Avenue as the whoosh from below sends her ecru halter dress billowing above her waist. Ms. Monroe was the star of that scene, but the…

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September 28, 2013 / Vickie Lester

MARILYN MONROE and LUCILLE BALL have a brush with COMMUNISM

BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt. Arthur Miller wouldn’t name names for HUAC and he was slapped with contempt – here his wife, Marilyn Monroe, reacts to the news in 1958 that Miller was cleared of charges. Now poppets, you will find I…

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September 24, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Maxwell Perkins, edited Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The first thing you must remember…(is that an) editor does not add to a book. At best he serves as a handmaiden to an author. Don’t ever get to feeling important about yourself, because an an editor at most releases energy. He creates nothing.” *** That exceedingly modest quotation was…

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August 24, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE WORLD IN A LIBRARY Depending on what source you read, either printed books or e-readers are doomed. Traditional publishing is in chaos while technology is opening up new avenues for innovation (some of which are being used by the hugely talented weblogsmith of this very site, Mrs Vickie Lester!).…

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August 19, 2013 / Vickie Lester

UNIVERSAL/FOCUS – HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY? WE COULD DO WITH 50 LESS SHADES OF GREY.

Darlings, I leave you to your own private predilections. However, studies reveal significant differences in retention, memory and cognitive mapping betwixt printed text and electronic media. Upside? Nobody will remember reading “Fifty Shades of Grey”. First published on April 4th, 2012 when the film rights were acquired and before hard…

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August 16, 2013 / Vickie Lester

COME FLY WITH ME

August 13, 2013 / Vickie Lester

DESIGNING WOMAN – LOS ANGELES – 1957

“Designing Woman” playing at the State on Broadway – 1957: “Designing Woman” – directed by Vincente Minnelli – starring Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck: A lovely apartment in the city, New York City, for fashion designer Bacall and new husband, sports reporter, Peck… It was a box office success, and…

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August 2, 2013 / Vickie Lester