Tag: Hollywood Style

February 3, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Brontë Sisters – Hollywood Style

This was from a stinker of a movie, circa 1946. The Warners have simplified matters to an almost irreducible extreme and have found an explanation for the Brontës in Louisa May Alcott terms. They have visioned sombrous Emily, the author of “Wuthering Heights,” and Charlotte, the writer of “Jane Eyre,”…

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January 24, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Cat fight – Hollywood style – or Vickie Lester goes Sicilian

Listen, babies. It has recently come to my attention that some creative types begrudge other creative types success. I know…hard to believe. I want you to listen to something Ms. Anita Loos said in her seventies: “What I admire most in life is an expert; any expert. An expert is…

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April 28, 2013 / Vickie Lester

FOUND ART IN HOLLYWOOD

Sometimes I just post things that are pretty — this is a corner in our living room. The deco tile is architectural salvage and the wooden cylinder is industrial – once used as part of an assembly that printed wallpaper.