comedy – Page 2 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

May 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.” Katharine Hepburn

May 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.” Katharine Hepburn

May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Dinner at Eight — I wonder what Carlotta would have made of Google Glass?

Kitty: I was reading a book the other day. Carlotta: Reading a book? Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession? Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that’s…

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May 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The original Platinum Blonde in black, Jean Harlow

April 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? Ernst Lubitsch

Hold on, I feel something in the zeitgeist, a surge through the ether…somebody stop me…could it be? Another handy hashtag? Metadata this, my darlings: #ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors I learned that there’s a dialogue between readers and writers, between content and audience… I learned that imagination feeds on the barest suggestion……

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March 29, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Gloria Swanson’s Spanish Colonial in Beverly Hills – very pretty, like the actress. I read from my novel at 8, and remember, I’m not an actress.

March 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

For now we dish about Hollywood, and later… Would you like me to read you a story? A bit of a story? Tomorrow?

There was a time in late 1980 through to early 2000, when I would get sent on pitch meetings. It was also the era when spec scripts boomed and people were getting millions for three page treatments and command performances in some exec’s office. Needless to say, I was never…

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March 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I think dim sum Sunday just turned into free association Sunday…

Usually when I wake on Sunday mornings I have dim sum palaces on my mind: piles of jade green vegetables sauteed with shards of garlic, barbecued duck and scallions rolled in delicate pancakes, caramelized pan fried pork dumplings, rich golden custard tarts called dan ta and cup after cup after…

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March 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If you work on a film set this is not how you wake up in the morning. I don’t care if you’re a movie star. It’s dark out, and…

Does anyone wake up like this, even on a Sunday morning? With a fresh cup of coffee in a china cup and the paper in disarray on the sheets? Join me in the fantasy… Why, I believe she must be reading the Los Angeles Times book review section… I mean!…

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March 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tag: comedy

“I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.” Katharine Hepburn

“I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.” Katharine Hepburn

Dinner at Eight — I wonder what Carlotta would have made of Google Glass?

The original Platinum Blonde in black, Jean Harlow

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? Ernst Lubitsch

Gloria Swanson’s Spanish Colonial in Beverly Hills – very pretty, like the actress. I read from my novel at 8, and remember, I’m not an actress.

For now we dish about Hollywood, and later… Would you like me to read you a story? A bit of a story? Tomorrow?

I think dim sum Sunday just turned into free association Sunday…

If you work on a film set this is not how you wake up in the morning. I don’t care if you’re a movie star. It’s dark out, and…

Romantic LA. The Mister took me out to dinner tonight, not because we were celebrating, but because we didn’t want to sit in rush hour traffic…