The moment – captured by LIFE magazine:
Category: Short Stories
Player? Serial monogamist? Peter Pan? Lothario? Why label? Some people’s libido does not wane with the years. Let’s just say a charming actor confided to me over lunch he absolutely loves women. I’ll say. After dating a cavalcade of beauties, and entering his fifth decade, his ardor remains fierce. While…
That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then elderly Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis presided. The screening was packed and the…
…They arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel at around eleven. The lobby was straight out of the fifties, walls and floor of stone, star burst chandeliers, and the ballroom, while it still maintained a sinuous two-tiered design like that of a cruise ship, was carpeted with some dreadful dark jewel…
A friend emailed Mr. Lester this morning and asked, “What did you say to the Pope?” This was his reply, “Wow, that guy is so sensitive! I just told him that maybe, just maybe, he was not a force of good in the world and I asked him what it…
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…
Here’s the historical context. That’s David Bowie, during a decade he reports to have forgotten, nabbed in Upstate New York on a coke charge. Talk about aplomb. He looks impossibly elegant under obviously trying circumstances. Contrast that with any mug shot you’ve seen recently of errant celebrities and then just…
There are stairs from street to street all over Beachwood Canyon. I had a friend who counted them – I think she said there were four hundred (stairs, not stairways) – she used them to get in shape for her wedding gown. (Lord, children, she was fit!) Here’s a picture…