Tag: Hollywood behind the scenes

June 20, 2014 /

Hey, Baby! Guess what’s free Sunday on your Kindle? Hollywood… Somewhere around the stroke of midnight… California time

 

June 13, 2014 /

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, May Britt, photo by Bernie Abramson

June 6, 2014 /

I got a rocket in my pocket…

Joe wasn’t about to let up. “Everything the big studios do in Hollywood is predicated on the sexual fantasies of heterosexual fourteen-year-old boys. You understand what I’m saying?” “No.” “Leading men are straight. Period. On-screen and off. Cliff’s agency—Becky’s studio—raise fortunes based on that fantasy. Steve Nelson, he owns a…

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April 10, 2014 /

The actor and my missing…oh my goodness!

I have a friend who’s an actor (you might even call him a star), who when he started out, did a lot of house sitting among the hoi polloi of Hollywood. Let me tell you now, hoi polloi doesn’t mean “the swells”, it means the masses. Okay. That settled, once…

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April 3, 2014 /

Back home — inspiring Art Deco L.A. — and deep thanks to my editors: Robert Winter (UK) and Ellen Tarlin (US)

April 3, 2014 /

A block away from Johnny Depp’s penthouse—we sit with a director and chat—an excerpt from “It’s in His Kiss”

April 3, 2014 /

Back home in my noir L.A.—actually, the penthouse would be Johnny Depp’s—but let’s not be sticklers

January 10, 2014 /

in bed with…

Need I remind you of the drill, babies? I post pictures of famous people and then I talk about myself. Shall I tell you why I still identify deeply, so deeply, with this photo by Mark Seliger for Rolling Stone of that particular trio from the X-Files? I thought you’d…

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January 10, 2014 /

A Polaroid (from the olden times) of me (in a deeply discounted Bob Mackie gown) and the Mister in Beguiling Hollywood

 

November 29, 2012 /

MY FRIEND ANDY WROTE A BOOK – ALL ABOUT LIFE IN LA