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“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.” William Faulkner

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion. What Hollywood looked like when Mr. Faulkner deigned to spend time here… This is the corner of Highland and Hollywood Blvd. The building is still there. This is Hollywood Blvd. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is at the bottom of the frame. He may have stopped at Sardi’s, designed by Richard Neutra for a drink… Or picked up some paper for his typewriter here, at the stationer’s store… And perhaps feeling a little worse […]

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Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

The day after Christmas, early 1930s: William Faulkner (yes, he was married and significantly older) pictured with Meta Carpenter Wilde (secretary to Howard Hawks and later a Script Supervisor). Meta Carpenter Wilde wrote a book in 1976 about her eighteen year relationship – “A Loving Gentleman” – with the storied author. A very interesting look at Hollywood’s golden era from an insider’s perspective. “My latter day wonder at the honors paid to Hawks was as nothing compared to my shock […]

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BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING

May 7, 2013 by Vickie Lester

A friend asked me in the comments (http://skepperson.com/) if there were any similarities between the chapters of the novel I was posting and the real story of Bogart and Bacall. She asking if a story element, “sympathy as an aphrodisiac”, came into play with Bacall’s feeling for Bogart. I thought I’d better post my response. They were crazy about each other. She may have been sympathetic to the fact he was in a horrible and violent marriage (Mayo Methot came […]

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Tag: Meta Carpenter Wilde

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.” William Faulkner

Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING