Category: Truth & Rumors
What has this to do with baking? Let me back up a little bit and we’ll get to that. Josh Marshall is a journalist who writes about the political scene. He is astute, insightful, and sometimes he cracks me the-hell-up. So in the midst of one of his essays on…
M.B. What inspired you to write a story with Prince Harry as your main character? W.K. I saw a production of Shakespeare’s two Henry IV plays. I was surprised to find how much Shakespeare’s Prince Hal resembles the modern Prince Harry. Isn’t it great when someone from today suddenly illuminates…
“It’s about a lazy prince. Nobody thinks he’s got a brain. All he does is drink and joke around and hang out with lowlifes in the bar. Even his father thinks he’s a zero. Then all of a sudden, he has to go to war. Nobody thinks he can hack…
Oh my heavens, did I screw up or what? And thanks to an astute comment the author of this quote is revealed: Here’s the complete quote from Irene: “Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep…
Myrna Loy grew up in Los Angeles and when she was a teenager she posed for this statue outside the old Venice High School. Around the same age she was taking dance lessons with the famed Natacha Rambova, wife of Valentino. Myrna said of her, She was absolutely beautiful, the…
Definition of film noir plural film noirs \-ˈnwär(z)\ or films noir or films noirs \-ˈnwär\ : a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous atmosphere that is conveyed by shadowy photography and foreboding background music; also : a film of this type…