All through life, instinctively or intellectually, we adapt to survive. Even insects have some boss strategies, for example, the formation of a chitinous exoskeleton, which is the somewhat see-through shell that encapsulates and protects a shrimp or a spider. I have a theory about directors who succeed in the movie…
Tag: Lana Turner
“You know my mom and dad came out to visit me when I was on that first movie. I took them to set, Grauman’s Chinese, Max Factor’s. We looked at every little bitty star on Hollywood Boulevard and had hot fudge sundaes at C.C. Brown’s. The day they came to…
CAPA, BOB: In the Ardennes I traded my fur lined cap for something utterly useless he offered in return. He was solemn that icy night. There were icicles in his hair. It was the last time I saw him before he was killed. Marlene Dietrich (Robert Capa died on May…
If you follow this blog you probably are familiar with the story. Lana Turner “hooks up” with Johnny Stompanato, a mob thug under the employ of Mickey Cohen. He roughs her up, they split up, they get back together. One night at Lana’s home they argue in Lana’s bedroom. Her…
She married eight times, twice to Stephen Crane, father of her daughter Cheryl – here’s the young family in 1943.