humor – Page 8 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

March 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If you work on a film set this is not how you wake up in the morning. I don’t care if you’re a movie star. It’s dark out, and…

Does anyone wake up like this, even on a Sunday morning? With a fresh cup of coffee in a china cup and the paper in disarray on the sheets? Join me in the fantasy… Why, I believe she must be reading the Los Angeles Times book review section… I mean!…

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March 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Romantic LA. The Mister took me out to dinner tonight, not because we were celebrating, but because we didn’t want to sit in rush hour traffic…

March 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Oh lookie! I spared you another reading, but you’re not getting away from my book that easily!

*** An excerpt from “It’s In His Kiss”… in which our heroine arrives in Palm Springs. by Vickie Lester While her father ran a media conglomerate, Uncle Manny (once a medical student whose aspirations shifted in the gore on the beaches of Normandy) drafted up skyscrapers, Spanish galleons, space ships,…

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February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Pouf Honey! Before we begin, I said to the Mister recently that if his current Herr Direktör didn’t let him go home early, I would go down to the set with a pair of pinking shears with which I’d cut off Little Herr! What? Too much?! The Mister thought so…after he’d…

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February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

February 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

This is the one who slapped a cop…

When I was a kid the Gabors roamed Palm Springs. Zsa Zsa, pictured here, Eva, of television fame, Magda, who married well and often. Their mama, Jolie was a jewelry designer (I think) and I know she had store on Palm Canyon in Palm Springs. Well babies, I am not…

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February 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

I am doing something I’ve never done before, and I’m going to read, out loud, a little bit of my novel, “It’s in His Kiss”, and post it on the site tomorrow. It is saucy, mildly funny, it is about Hollywood, and it is kinda a romance-mystery behind the scenes…

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February 20, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Death Takes a Holiday: or the smooth moves of a Hollywood Romeo

A few years ago I was summoned to the home of a prominent film director for dinner. The house was lovely, a large scale estate probably dating back to the silent era. It appeared as if the director had just moved in, judging by the lack of furniture. We dined…

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February 19, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.” Tallulah Bankhead

February 19, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tag: humor

If you work on a film set this is not how you wake up in the morning. I don’t care if you’re a movie star. It’s dark out, and…

Romantic LA. The Mister took me out to dinner tonight, not because we were celebrating, but because we didn’t want to sit in rush hour traffic…

Oh lookie! I spared you another reading, but you’re not getting away from my book that easily!

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Have you heard what that Vickie Lester is up to? Why, it’s perfectly scandalous!

This is the one who slapped a cop…

I’ve got something on my mind… it might have a bit to do with stagefright

Death Takes a Holiday: or the smooth moves of a Hollywood Romeo

“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.” Tallulah Bankhead

“The boy’s got a lot to learn and I’ve got a lot to teach.” Barbara Stanwyck on her engagement to Robert Taylor