imagination – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

May 4, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet

The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowd sourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky. By JON MOOALLEMMAY 4, 2016 …A cloud is only water, but arranged like no other water on earth.…

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April 15, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Lily Tuck – Reading With Imagination – NYTimes.com

…Fiction, which I believe suffers most from modern readership, is by definition not factual. It may be about the real world and it may try to illuminate some facts about the real world or how real people behave in it or, as is so often the case in modern literature,…

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May 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Write what you know…and then grit your teeth and publish. With an older and wiser Vickie Lester and a young Joan Crawford

Write what you know??? If that were true all you’d be hearing from me is, “Blah-blah-blah, perimenopause, blah-blah-blah, who didn’t close the refrigerator?, blah-blah-blah, that director is an ASSHOLE, blah-blah-blah, does anyone see my glasses anywhere… Furthermore poppets, I get queasy handing out advice, but the thing about writing, more…

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May 3, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Ponder this, according to Lauren Bacall, “Imagination is the highest kite that can fly” and enjoy some architectural eye candy on a day devoted to proofreading…

April 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? Ernst Lubitsch

Hold on, I feel something in the zeitgeist, a surge through the ether…somebody stop me…could it be? Another handy hashtag? Metadata this, my darlings: #ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors I learned that there’s a dialogue between readers and writers, between content and audience… I learned that imagination feeds on the barest suggestion……

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November 30, 2013 / Vickie Lester

Keep at it… Jean Arthur

November 30, 2013 / Vickie Lester

When inspiration strikes… write it down. Mary Pickford

November 16, 2013 / Vickie Lester

The Producers — “We’ll play the countessa and the chauffeur!”

LOVE Estelle Winwood — to have been alive when she was onstage and to have seen her perform… You know me chickadees, it’s never straightforward on Beguiling. Today’s theme is about make-believe/fantasy/imagination, and its significant role in romantic relationships. Anybody care to chime in?

August 4, 2013 / Vickie Lester

HAPPY IN THE DARK – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

Touring Broadway’s Last Great Movie Palace: the Los Angeles – Curbed Inside – Curbed LA. Greetings, Beguiling Hollywoodians, I love movies. Surprising I know! I remember being taken as a child to see various things and it was always a treat. Sitting there, in the dark, as a different world…

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June 13, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THE SWIFTS OF BRENSTON: I AM ELLIS SWIFT PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

. THE SWIFTS OF BRENSTON: I AM ELLIS SWIFT Now, where was I? Oh, yes, I had just told you about the epiphany I had experienced, and how that was about to lead me from Britain to Brenston, hadn’t I? It all happened with astonishing quicksilver rapidity, one moment I…

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