Tag: book

January 21, 2014 /

Marlene Dietrich — photographed by Edward Steichen

December 11, 2013 /

With a song in my heart… Me and my Mister!

Yeppers, I’m almost done with the edit — and my darlin’ is working on a big movie and is working six day weeks in town. So, on our one night, really truly together, all day, all night, Sunday, wonderful Sunday. Dinner and… *** *** Nope, this one! Yes, an evening…

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December 7, 2013 /

Hollywood hausfrau waxes lyrical on Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll in new novel

Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.

December 7, 2013 /

I was thinking of calling my first novel, “Snowball in Hell”, but…

I decided against it. Here’s a description of the novel from the back of the book cover:
December 7, 2013 /

Holy Moses! My novel is called, “It’s in His Kiss”

The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…

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December 6, 2013 /

Vickie Lester’s greatest hits — P.L. TRAVERS VERSUS WALT DISNEY

I am fascinated by an upcoming film project, SAVING MR. BANKS. It promises to illuminate the contentious relationship between Walt Disney and the author of the “Mary Poppins” series, P.L. Travers. Apparently Travers cried through the premiere of what she thought an “appalling” film. I would say there was, perhaps,…

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December 4, 2013 /

More unsolicited advice on writing your first novel – STOP

If you sit hunched at your computer all the time you will turn into a quivering mass of protoplasm. Get up, stretch, take a walk… Now, get back to work.

December 2, 2013 /

This week the line-editor and I complete the manuscript

Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…

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November 24, 2013 /

The Garden of Allah novels during Hollywood’s golden years – by Martin Turnbull

November 24, 2013 /

Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide: A Biography — by James Zeruk, Jr.