comedy – Page 3 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

March 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Oh lookie! I spared you another reading, but you’re not getting away from my book that easily!

*** An excerpt from “It’s In His Kiss”… in which our heroine arrives in Palm Springs. by Vickie Lester While her father ran a media conglomerate, Uncle Manny (once a medical student whose aspirations shifted in the gore on the beaches of Normandy) drafted up skyscrapers, Spanish galleons, space ships,…

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March 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

At least I should have a publishing deal, poor Eve (aka Lena Dunham)

February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Pouf Honey! Before we begin, I said to the Mister recently that if his current Herr Direktör didn’t let him go home early, I would go down to the set with a pair of pinking shears with which I’d cut off Little Herr! What? Too much?! The Mister thought so…after he’d…

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February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

February 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

This is the one who slapped a cop…

When I was a kid the Gabors roamed Palm Springs. Zsa Zsa, pictured here, Eva, of television fame, Magda, who married well and often. Their mama, Jolie was a jewelry designer (I think) and I know she had store on Palm Canyon in Palm Springs. Well babies, I am not…

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February 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

I am doing something I’ve never done before, and I’m going to read, out loud, a little bit of my novel, “It’s in His Kiss”, and post it on the site tomorrow. It is saucy, mildly funny, it is about Hollywood, and it is kinda a romance-mystery behind the scenes…

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February 3, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Hold please. Strange developments afoot, book-wise. Or as Sherlock would say — the game is on!

February 2, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Don’t give a rodent’s posterior portion for football? Then join me!

Now, don’t get me wrong. I have two big brothers who taught their vertically challenged little sister how to be quick and sneaky on the basketball court, and to NOT, most definitely NOT to close my eyes and flinch when I saw a fast tennis serve coming my way. But…

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January 26, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I let Mr. Lester write the title of this post… tawdry Hollywood underground dirty secrets revealed… or not. Mostly not.

I’ve been on a binge lately, watching comedies from the Seventies. That’s the decade I grew up in. Ten at the start, almost twenty by the time it was all over. I realized I’ve only seen the films once (in most cases) and I’ve decided to review them, in not…

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December 17, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Tag: comedy

Oh lookie! I spared you another reading, but you’re not getting away from my book that easily!

At least I should have a publishing deal, poor Eve (aka Lena Dunham)

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

This is the one who slapped a cop…

I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

Hold please. Strange developments afoot, book-wise. Or as Sherlock would say — the game is on!

Don’t give a rodent’s posterior portion for football? Then join me!

I let Mr. Lester write the title of this post… tawdry Hollywood underground dirty secrets revealed… or not. Mostly not.

Thelma Todd – Vamping Venus (1928) – is this a lost film?