From Lanier Smith, who weaves enchantment wherever he goes… In the movies murder is clean and easy. They never show the scum and the blood. But when it happens in tensile town it’s about a cheap and dirty as it gets. There are many sins in Hollywood, dirty little sins.…
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There is an angry wind from the north that comes down the canyons of Los Angeles like flames from the nostrils of Beelzebub. The autumn wind from the Mohave is as hot as the devils breath and licks relentlessly at windows and doors pushing its sandy heat through any available…
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…
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…
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…
THE SCENE I bid you welcome to the most unsettling afternoon tea party in an English rose garden of which, I hazard, you will ever partake. An afternoon tea, in an English rose garden, unsettling? Why in the name of heaven how? Why? Well there’s a killer at the table…
GLAMOUR BOWL Near death and on a constant morphine drip Theo passed from the hospital bed to his past on a regular basis. When cognizant of the present he knew what was happening. It is said when you die, your life flashes before you in an instant. He was on…
The sweep of history, the allure of love, and the spark of humor – all in one package. This is what Lanier does so well. And, thank you Mr. Smith for introducing me to the magic. A re-post to delight on a Sunday morning. Je suis enchantée de faire votre…