Category: Paris

April 29, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.” Hemingway

April 16, 2014 / Vickie Lester

William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision | Brain Pickings

Have you read Maria Popova’s always intriguing “Brain Pickings”? Beautifully written and researched pieces…an eclectic and fascinating collection of essays, often slyly funny… In 1916, as he was about to turn twenty, Faulkner began contributing poems and sketches to the Mississippian, the literary magazine at Ole Miss — the University…

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February 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Well?” she said not in her breathy movie voice but in her own natural and beautiful voice, a voice melodic with a hint of melancholy and on the edge of laughter. via THREE A.M. ~ Dior Homme by Christian Dior | SCENTS MEMORY.

February 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

SCENTS MEMORY | There is nothing like the smell of a man, or the sight of Lady Hamilton

Year after year she looks with serene beauty toward the horizon of eternity. She has been doing this for a while, long before the museum acquired her. In fact she has been facing oblivion peeking out from under that charming hat since 1782. She has hundreds, maybe thousands of tiny…

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January 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

How to Stay Sane in a Crazy World, by Sophia Stuart

As per the traditions of Hollywood, and my habit of turning conversations my way here’s the preface: Oh! Talk about me? Of course! Spoiled and sheltered, and can go Sicilian in an instant. On the other hand. There are people who restore, regenerate, thrive in self-invention, and don’t have a…

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January 11, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Gillian Anderson and The House of Mirth (2000) – by George Kaplan

A few days ago in my rrrambling post on David Lean’s Great Expectations I made passing mention of Gillian Anderson’s performance as Lady Dedlock in the BBC version of Bleak House (expanded upon in my previous post, read it, if nothing else it will act as a soporific!), in the…

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December 29, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Nothing now could take the wind out of my sails

December 27, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Gene Kelly – An American In Paris – I Got Rhythm (1951) – for Mae the onetrackmuse.com

December 27, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Gene Kelly, be still my beating heart, in film that wasn’t a musical… The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

December 20, 2013 / Vickie Lester

At Long Last Love – New York Times

At Long Last Love By Mitchell Owens Published: April 29, 2001 *** With due respect to Patrick Dennis, his Auntie Mame had nothing on Elsie de Wolfe. The world’s most celebrated interior decorator stood on her head at the slightest provocation, served cocktails in the bathroom and had a blithe…

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