Tag: humor

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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May 9, 2013 /

DEBBIE AND CARRIE – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Doris: I was such an awful mother… what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner? Suzanne: These are the options? You, Joan or Lana?

May 8, 2013 /

THE DATE PART III – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART III; OR, I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN A date with Isabella Arden! Rhodes Cardell’s mask of insouciant cool cracked, and the face of Will Makepeace could be glimpsed beneath. The same face, but also not. Rhodes’s expression on hearing Isabella affirm that she would, wonder…

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May 7, 2013 /

HOWARD HAWKS – GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES – 1953

“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!” Howard Hawks “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (based on the novel by Anita Loos) has been called Hawks’ only female “buddy picture”. Howard Hawks on the set of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” with Marilyn…

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May 7, 2013 /

HOWARD HAWKS

I understand Howard Hawks enjoyed talking to young people: And, mentoring talent: “We discovered Bacall was a little girl who, when she becomes insolent, becomes rather attractive. That was the only way you noticed her, because she could do it with a grin. So I said to Bogey, “We are…

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May 5, 2013 /

THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

Photograph by Herb Ritts . THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN . Rhodes Cardell was used to being around women, *lots* of women; often in varying states of undress. He was, he pretended, inured to female nudity, not an eyelid did he bat at an undraped feminine form…

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May 3, 2013 /

FROM LUCY TO IRMA TO JACKIE TO ME — I GOT MY HAIR DONE – ALERT THE PRESS!

May 3, 2013 /

WHAT WE LOOK LIKE WHILE WE’RE BLOGGING

Ever wonder what people look like while they’re blogging? Behold, that slightly glazed expression proofing our text, or going through our photo files. And then, the Kid calls up the stairs and cracks you up, or the Mister coaxes you away from the computer with promises of coffee and suddenly…

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May 1, 2013 /

THE DATE – A SHORT STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN

. The Date, by George Kaplan . Rhodes Cardell was in a quandary. As was Will Makepeace. Rhodes Cardell was in a panic. So, too, was Will Makepeace. This wasn’t too surprising, because Rhodes Cardell *was* Will Makepeace, or, rather, vice versa. . It was 1983. Rhodes Cardell was a…

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