As you might have gleaned by now, when there’s a story to tell about Hollywood, I’m inclined to change the names and mix it up a bit to protect the innocent. What follows is mostly true, except what’s not. At the end of summer, after several restorative sessions, Ms. Todd…
Category: Theater
Good day to you, Miss Vickie, I thought you might be interested in the following on Norman Lloyd. Your piece on Dorothy Parker recalled to me that she and Bob Benchley contributed to Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” which in turn reminded me of Norman who I’d just been reading about in connection…
Whoever you are I love you. This is a picture of Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot with (as my husband would say) unreasonably short hair. And, this is the most marvelous first paragraph (and a bit) of “An Orderly Man”: I am an orderly man. I say this with no…
I know, sometimes it’s hard to find solace in solitude — but you certainly wouldn’t have found it at Mocambo. Rita Hayworth and her agent Charlie Feldman after her divorce from the Aly Khan. At Ciro’s with Kirk Douglas… Where she said, “Please, boys, no more pictures”. It’s an uneasy…