Category: New York

May 8, 2013 /

THE DATE PART III; OR, I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN A date with Isabella Arden! Rhodes Cardell’s mask of insouciant cool cracked, and the face of Will Makepeace could be glimpsed beneath. The same face, but also not. Rhodes’s expression on hearing Isabella affirm that she would, wonder…

May 6, 2013 /

THE NEW YORK TIMES Leo McCarey and Pearl S. Buck discuss her screenplay for, “The Bamboo Curtain”, 1961 May 5, 2013 Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — Forget zombies. The data crunchers are invading Hollywood. The same kind of numbers analysis…

May 1, 2013 /

. The Date, by George Kaplan . Rhodes Cardell was in a quandary. As was Will Makepeace. Rhodes Cardell was in a panic. So, too, was Will Makepeace. This wasn’t too surprising, because Rhodes Cardell *was* Will Makepeace, or, rather, vice versa. . It was 1983. Rhodes Cardell was a…

April 5, 2013 /
February 8, 2013 /

Hello, Today I’m taking a short break as I’m discussing publishing a novel of mine with some charming people – I’ll fill you in if the chips fall my way – actually, I’ll fill you in either way. Over the weekend we’ll see where you might have had a swell…

February 6, 2013 /

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January 28, 2013 /

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times January 26, 2013, 7:20 p.m. WASHINGTON — Marriage should be limited to unions of a man and a woman because they alone can “produce unplanned and unintended offspring,” opponents of gay marriage have told the Supreme Court. By contrast, when same-sex couples decide…

January 24, 2013 /

This goes out to my blogging friends in Chicago, where today and everyday this week it’s been below zero… Howell Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966