Category: Parenting

January 12, 2014 /

From sketch, to stage concept, to screen – Orry-Kelly for Auntie Mame

January 7, 2014 /

ArtSake — Amy Dryansky: No Birds Were Harmed in the Making of this Poem

January 7, 2014 /

Spare me the Tiger Mom. Most of us mums aren’t creepy, crazy racists | Michele Weldon | Comment is free | theguardian.com

January 4, 2014 /

THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF LANA TURNER’S LIFE

If you follow this blog you probably are familiar with the story. Lana Turner “hooks up” with Johnny Stompanato, a mob thug under the employ of Mickey Cohen. He roughs her up, they split up, they get back together. One night at Lana’s home they argue in Lana’s bedroom. Her…

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January 4, 2014 /

LANA TURNER BECOMES A BLONDE AND A MOVIE STAR

She married eight times, twice to Stephen Crane, father of her daughter Cheryl – here’s the young family in 1943.

January 4, 2014 /

LANA TURNER – HIGH SCHOOL AND A SODA – AND THE REST IS INFAMY

December 18, 2013 /

What to get for…? Liu by Guerlain The Perfumed Dandy’s 12 Days Before Christmas Part I | The Perfumed Dandy.

December 7, 2013 /

Hollywood hausfrau waxes lyrical on Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll in new novel

Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.
December 7, 2013 /

Holy Moses! My novel is called, “It’s in His Kiss”

The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…

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December 2, 2013 /

This week the line-editor and I complete the manuscript

Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…

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