Category: Parenting

May 9, 2013 / Vickie Lester

LANA – PERHAPS NOT THE GREATEST MAMA

May 3, 2013 / Vickie Lester

WHAT WE LOOK LIKE WHILE WE’RE BLOGGING

Ever wonder what people look like while they’re blogging? Behold, that slightly glazed expression proofing our text, or going through our photo files. And then, the Kid calls up the stairs and cracks you up, or the Mister coaxes you away from the computer with promises of coffee and suddenly…

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April 19, 2013 / Vickie Lester

IN A LONELY PLACE – OR – WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?

This was our first post on March 31st, 2012 – I re-posted it in June of the same year, and for some reason, and I know this speaks to a certain pettiness in my soul – I’m putting it up again. As my friend, the fabulous Heidi of NYC –…

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April 14, 2013 / Vickie Lester

WHEN MY CUP RUNNETH OVER I TEND TO RUN FOR THE MOP

Babies, Darlings, Angels, Compadres and assorted Poppets… If you have been following this blog you’ll know I wrote a book (an irreverent, sexy, oh so mysterioso roman à clef)… Where was I? Oh yes, someone’s going to publish the book, and I was very vague about the details – no more,…

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March 27, 2013 / Vickie Lester

LETTERS FROM FRIENDS

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…

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March 26, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Oral Arguments – 82 pages – Hollingsworth v. Perry

Oral Arguments: 12-144.exe – 12-144a.pdf. Addressing the merits of the case during the first of two days of arguments on same-sex marriage, Justice Kennedy voiced sympathy for the children of gay and lesbian couples. “There’s some 40,000 children in California that live with same-sex parents,” he said, as the justices…

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March 21, 2013 / Vickie Lester

DYNAMIC ELEGANCE – THE FASHION DESIGN OF DAI LE

Two weeks ago, Saturday, the Kid assisted Dai Le at an event at Siren Studios in Hollywood. (Remember the picture of yours truly on a rooftop, and the post, of all things – grousing about my hair?) Since then this talented young man has been highlighted in Apparel News and…

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March 21, 2013 / Vickie Lester

FEELING THE RHYTHM WITH MARILYN MONROE AND CLIFTON WEBB – EVERYBODY LOVES TO CHA CHA CHA

I get it. Everybody loves to dance. But, when a seventy-year old director has a slew of children with previous wives wouldn’t it be prudent if someone introduced the idea of birth control into the equation? It’s not like he’s some ethically challenged tycoon that actually needs the lightening quick…

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March 20, 2013 / Vickie Lester

A LITTLE RETROSPECTIVE AND SOUR CREAM WAFFLES WITH WILLIAM DEMAREST

He started in Silents: And, was part of the comedic troupe of Preston Sturges: And, all references to heads of lettuce aside, one of the finest: A fabulous character actor and familiar to a particular generation as Uncle Charlie in “My Three Sons”… In 1939 the Motion Picture Mother’s Club…

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March 19, 2013 / Vickie Lester