Tag: friendship
October 13, 2013 /

Dim Sum Sunday at the San Gabriel Mission and 1,000 posts

The Mister at the San Gabriel Mission: Visitors to the Mission: From whence the vineyards of California came: As for the 1000th post… It’s just a number, but what it represents is our friendship and dialogue, and for that, treasured readers, thank you.
July 26, 2013 /

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GRIPPING LIFE

The interwebs, like the world which they mirror, can be a vast daunting place. There are a lot of strange things out there as well as very strange people (of which, I may be one) and it can be quite scary. But then you discover places that are purely wonderful,…

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June 6, 2013 /

DORIS DAY AND ROCK HUDSON

May 12, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART TWO BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda,…

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May 11, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART ONE BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here…

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March 27, 2013 /

LETTERS FROM FRIENDS

My friend responds to my post (FRIENDS | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD) about growing up together: So you remember Jilly the Gerbil’s funeral! That was one of the first stories I told my kids about us too! I think we dressed up in our Sunday dress-up best because I distinctly remember dragging…

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March 16, 2013 /

READERS ROCK – AND THESE ARE FOR YOU – THANKS FOR BEING EVER SO, V

March 16, 2013 /

AN INTERESTING EXCHANGE BETWEEN YOURS TRULY AND A DELIGHTFUL READER