Category: Weather

November 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

It has a lot to do with the weather, but decorating for the holidays in Los Angeles has always struck me as a little freaky – 1929

November 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Reprise: Something autumnal I whipped up one blazing hot 4th of July

Sun-dried tomato tapenade and Crostini Tossed green Salad Black bean and bell pepper and corn Salad Rice Slow roasted, spice rubbed, garlic stuffed pork Shoulder Mango Salsa Olive oil cake with caramelized figs and Peaches Okay. If you’re looking closely at the background of the monkey picture you’ll see my…

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October 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.” Noel Coward

August 1, 2014 / Vickie Lester

88° in Palm Springs this morning, high expected 108°, the weather was similar when I met my husband

August 1, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Summer in Los Angeles—with movies stars, swimmers, gangsters, and Liberace…

The Summer Olympics took place in Los Angeles in 1984 when I was a sprout and my dad had a period of paternal custody. Those who drove were singing the praises of Peter Ueberroth for spooking the city into traffic calming, the likes of which had never been seen before,…

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May 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Damn… Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt – NYTimes.com

Richard B. Alley, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved in the new research but has studied the polar ice sheets for decades, said he found the new papers compelling. Though he had long feared the possibility of ice-sheet collapse, when he learned of the new…

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February 15, 2014 / Vickie Lester

SINGING IN THE RAIN? | The Old Marlovian

You will find poetry here, and thoughtful conversation. Click on the candy-colored text: SINGING IN THE RAIN? | The Old Marlovian. *** An aside: I visited this set. A recreation of Kyoto for Memoirs of a Geisha nestled in the Agoura Hills with the blazing California light filtered through giant…

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January 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Star Spangled Joan Crawford – a reprise from the beginning of the blog

Happy 4th of July! (On January 9th, 2014, we’ll call it a little sparkle in the midst of the Polar Vortex.) For an amazing account of Hollywood from it’s inception to one screenwriter’s declaration of independence get your hands on a copy of, “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” by Frederica Sagor…

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November 12, 2013 / Vickie Lester

How to Help Philippines Typhoon Victims

No more posts today – here are organizations that are sending disaster relief to the Philippines. I’m posting a still from John Ford’s, Hurricane (1937), it cannot begin to suggest the horror or devastation of this storm, or the profound grief we feel, but this is a movie blog, the…

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October 8, 2013 / Vickie Lester