Tag: memory
June 17, 2018 /

Gregory Peck was at the counter speaking to a man in a white smock. My immediate reaction (and of course I knew better) was, “Look, Scout’s dad is here.”

October 6, 2015 /

Don’t believe in ghosts? Try writing a novel.

Where muse and memory meet is often over a keyboard. I’m calling that a ghostly visitation. I have been in Boston a couple of months now, and I’m going to talk about riding a synaptic wave that apparently has been building in my psyche for a long, long, time. I…

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September 11, 2015 /

Got a minute? Stories my mother told me…

  Pictured above is Shirley MacLaine in a film (of doubtful entertainment value) called My Geisha, released in 1962. The maternal one was very intrigued by all things Japanese in the early sixties. I have clippings from the paper of her doing esoteric floral arrangements—and I remember when I was…

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July 20, 2014 /

The tale of my discount wedding dress – another post from the beginning of Beguiling

April 5, 2014 /

Downer day at Beguiling Hollywood, in which we contemplate death and the passing of friends

January 29, 2014 /

It was called Slave Hill | The Pink Agendist

“Did he love her?” “He loved her more than anything.” “Did they live here?” “Yes. In the ruin.” via It was called Slave Hill | The Pink Agendist. Photos of Panama by Eadweard Muybridge
January 8, 2014 /

Great Expectations (1946) – a film review by George Kaplan

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) Dir. David Lean Scr. Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern, and Kay Walsh based upon the novel by Charles Dickens Hello Fearless Readers, I’m here to briefly fill in with a guest post but, don’t worry, the incomparable Ms. Lester will be back very shortly!…

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May 12, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART TWO BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda,…

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May 11, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART ONE BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here…

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