SO ALIVE In 1996 Keir Bloomfield got his first sole screen credit as a writer. Granted, it was on a low-budget, a very low-budget, movie that the producers guaranteed would… Read more So Alive…an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester →
Portrait of Princess Margaret in front of the portrait by Annigoni, by Cecil Beaton Last year Viscount Linley surprised everyone by buying back an Annigoni portrait of his mother,… Read more Portrait of royalty, and not the Hollywood variety →
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Imagine a time before you were born. Imagine a dowdy old university town on the East Coast somewhere in the nineteen-sixties. Imagine a… Read more A Hard Day’s Night – an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester →
I don’t know what it is with Hollywood Royalty, but purchasing a palace abroad is commonplace in certain circles. Ireland is a popular spot (John Huston, Roy Disney, etc.) I… Read more Was that a castle? →
About a block west from Gelson’s market on Franklin, across from the Bourgeois Pig cafe the Villa Carlotta is now painted… an interesting array of hues and surrounded by foliage.… Read more North of Hollywood Blvd. where the swells lived, in the late 1920s… →
