Tag: humor
May 24, 2013 /

HE HAS A GOOD EYE – WHICH WORKS OUT NICELY SINCE HE DESIGNS MOVIES

May 24, 2013 /

IN MY BEST FRIEND’S GARDEN

I think I might have mentioned I used to live with my husband and our best friend in a house in the Hollywood Hills. This is the story our best friend likes to tell about my simmering temper and persnickety housekeeping habits… Once upon a time we used to throw…

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May 23, 2013 /

PREMIERE OF GRAND HOTEL AT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE – 1932

I remember seeing an item in the Hollywood Reporter a little while ago about the lack of skilled and seasoned producers in the industry. One of the anonymous sources cited a corporate culture at fault for eviscerating art and concentrating on profit. He/she bemoaned the emphasis on product, as if…

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May 20, 2013 /

I PUSHED THE SEND BUTTON – AND THE MANUSCRIPT IS TRAVELING THROUGH THE TUBES

May 19, 2013 /

THE DATE – PART V – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART V: BECAUSE MY LOVE FOR YOU WOULD BREAK MY HEART IN TWO Who Am I? Who Will I Be Now? Rhodes Cardell or Will Makepeace? Those questions haunted him as the day of the date came closer and closer like the waters from an on-rushing river. A…

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May 18, 2013 /

YOURS TRULY STROLLING WITH THE MISTER WHEN SHE HAS JUST UNTIL MONDAY TO TURN IN HER BOOK TO THE EDITOR

May 18, 2013 /

ONE OF THE QUEENS OF PULP – JACKIE COLLINS 1987

May 17, 2013 /

MUST HAVE FLOWERS – THE WEEKEND IS COMING – AND THE MANUSCRIPT IS TO BE SENT AWAY MONDAY

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May 16, 2013 /

BEACHWOOD CANYON

1924, two ladies ride the steam shovel while Beachwood Canyon undergoes development: Now, when I used to hike with friends from back east I had a set route, across the canyon to Wolf’s Lair, then down the path behind it to Lake Hollywood and then out onto Mulholland’s dam where…

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May 15, 2013 /

THE DATE PART IV – OR, BE MY BABY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART IV; OR, BE MY BABY Rhodes Cardell appeared, more or less, his usual self. He was working on a shoot which involved copious part-concealed nudity, and numerous insouciant and cheeky requests of the “would you mind pointing your delicious decolletage a little more to the right, Alyssa”…

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