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Move over, Louella Parsons (oops, you’re dead, never mind) Vickie Lester finally has something salacious to say about Hollywood

March 15, 2017 by Vickie Lester

It’s been suggested I go splashier in my revelations about Hollywood. But this is where I live, so I need to be careful. Also, I started this blog with the intention of not spreading malicious gossip — but babies, let’s dish. (Mama’s got a book to sell…) I can tell you how not to pick me up at a party… Saunter over like you still retained your matinee idol looks from the 1980s (when your belly has started to expand […]

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Character Actress

August 22, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Poet, Michelle Bitting, remembers her Great Grandmother, character actress of the Golden Era in: NOTES TO THE BELOVED (available on Amazon.com) Beryl Mercer, Actress (b.1882—d.1939) Time was you could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and catch Great Grandma’s name flaming every cherry marquee. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Cagney’s long-suffering mom in The Public Enemy, she made the melancholy matriarch with her ocean liner hips and squat size, made the big brown spigots of her eyes open over a […]

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BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING

May 7, 2013 by Vickie Lester

A friend asked me in the comments (http://skepperson.com/) if there were any similarities between the chapters of the novel I was posting and the real story of Bogart and Bacall. She asking if a story element, “sympathy as an aphrodisiac”, came into play with Bacall’s feeling for Bogart. I thought I’d better post my response. They were crazy about each other. She may have been sympathetic to the fact he was in a horrible and violent marriage (Mayo Methot came […]

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