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While we’re talking about bedrooms – let’s invite the crew

July 31, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Movies, Perfume, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, an insider's look at Hollywood, bed time story for grown ups, Bedroom, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, book, boudoir, boudoir photography, Cafe Metropole, camera crew, Carole Lombard, director, feathers, film, history, Hollywood, It's in His Kiss a novel by Vickie Lester, Jean Harlow, Jo, lights, lingerie, Little Women, Loretta Young, marabou, Movie Star, novel, Old Hollywood, on set, pet rat, photography, publishers, rafters, reading, roman à clef, roof, Scrabble, silk pajamas, stack of books

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Pajamas? Make mine Marabou!

July 31, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Advertising, Art, Blogging, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, Perfume, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, actress, an insider's look at Hollywood, bed time story for grown ups, Bedroom, behind the scenes, Beverly Hills, book, boudoir, boudoir photography, Cafe Metropole, camera crew, Carole Lombard, director, feathers, film, history, Hollywood, It's in His Kiss a novel by Vickie Lester, Jean Harlow, Jo, lights, lingerie, Little Women, Loretta Young, marabou, Movie Star, novel, Old Hollywood, on set, pet rat, photography, publishers, rafters, reading, roman à clef, roof, Scrabble, silk pajamas, stack of books

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Where Did You Go for Your Bra, Mrs. Robinson? – NYTimes.com

May 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you? By JOYCE WADLER Still, the boyfriend shopping invitation got me thinking that maybe I should get something special for the next time he visits — that stuff you see in Victoria’s Secret ads on the women with masses of hair and partly open mouths whose expressions suggest they exist in a parallel universe where all they do is get ready for sex. “Hey, Victoria, want to go to a movie?” “I […]

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Welcome to my boudoir, an update — and click on either of the pix to buy the novel…

May 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Mm hm. That’s pretty much what it looks like and that’s my knee in the bottom of the frame. It’s up under the rafters like Jo’s spot in “Little Woman”, it’s filled with books and a reading chair, and although I am forbidden to keep a stash of apples there—we have had rats—I do not feel kindly to them or name them Scrabble or consider them pets (like Miss March did). Babies this is California, under every red tiled roof […]

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The actor and my missing…oh my goodness!

April 10, 2014 by Vickie Lester

I have a friend who’s an actor (you might even call him a star), who when he started out, did a lot of house sitting among the hoi polloi of Hollywood. Let me tell you now, hoi polloi doesn’t mean “the swells”, it means the masses. Okay. That settled, once he did a little house sitting for me. Everyone in our household was shooting on location, which meant our Beachwood Canyon home would have stood empty for months, so a […]

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

February 20, 2014 by Vickie Lester

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 at a card table on pasta topped with jarred sauce (Prego, I think) but the company was delightful and we had been promised a screening… And besides, our host seemed […]

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