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January 12, 2013 /

Photographer Ralph Morris: – –

January 12, 2013 /

Los Angeles College Swim Team winter practice at El Mirador in Palm Springs On the board at El Mirador.  The tower you see in the background was part of the resort hotel – now a hospital is on the site and they have reproduced that particularly beautiful feature.

January 11, 2013 /

As my friend Lanier NAKED DESIRE ~ Nude for Men by Bijan « SCENTS MEMORY quipped, “He’s just checking for implants!”

January 10, 2013 /

The actor whose exploitation brought about the Coogan Laws governing earnings, education, hours, and trusts set aside (California Child Actor’s Bill)… Long and short, Coogan was screwed over by his mother and step-father. His mother’s response, “No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns…

January 7, 2013 /

My grandmother told me a story long ago of taking the train to New York City to see Katherine Cornell and Basil Rathbone in “Romeo and Juliet”: The first time he played Romeo, Rathbone was twenty-one – which I think would have been around 1913. In 1934 Basil would have…

January 5, 2013 /

The young Truman Capote of “Other Voices”. Beaton worried that success had changed Truman, and he wrote in his diary that “he looks like a tycoon, thickset, well-dressed, no longer the little gnome of Other Voices…. I secretly feel T. is in a bad state and may not last long.” …

January 4, 2013 /

Early concept meeting on “Life of Pi” – salary demands of Leo the Lion were not met. The role was re-cast.

January 3, 2013 /

Carole Lombard: Robert Montgomery: In “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”:

January 3, 2013 /

I thought I recognized one of my father’s friends in this picture from 1968. But, who did I spy in the right hand lower corner but director Doug Liman? Betcha you didn’t know he was a time traveler… One of his films in the pipeline, “Everest”, about George Mallory’s ascent…